Cellulose filtration of blood from malaria patients for improving ex vivo growth of Plasmodium falciparum parasites.

Sixbert I MkumbayeDaniel T R MinjaJakob S JespersenMichael AlifrangisReginald A KavisheSteven B MwakalingaJohn P LusinguThor G TheanderThomas LavstsenChristian W Wang
Published in: Malaria journal (2017)
Cellulose column filtration of parasitized blood is a cheap, applicable method for improving cultivation of P. falciparum field isolates for ex vivo based assays; however, when assessing phenotype and genotype of cultured parasites, in general, assumed to represent the in vivo infection, caution is advised.