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Falciparum Malaria
Studies from Kuwait University describe new findings in falciparum malaria
January 14th, 2009
According to a study from Kuwait, "The purpose of the present study was to confirm the effectiveness of saponin hemolysis for concentrating ring-infected erythrocytes in Plasmodium falciparum cultures and to determine the actual numbers of the enriched parasites, not just percentage parasitemia. This is important because various molecular biology and vaccine development against malaria require useable quantities of pure culture with minimal number of uninfected erythrocytes at all stages." "Synchronized cultures of three A falciparum strains were exposed to 0.015% isotonic saponin solution for 30 minutes on ice. They were centrifuged and the pellets were treated again...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-01-14)
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