TABLE 2.
Proportions of parasite stages in gametocyte cultures used in this study
| Culture day | % of parasitesa
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asexual stages
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Gametocyte stages
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Miscellaneous | |||||||
| Rings | Trophozoites | I | IIa | IIb | III | IV | V | ||
| 2 | 0.4 ± 0.4 | 5.7 ± 3.0 | 2.5 ± 0.6 | 66.8 ± 15.9 | 16.9 ± 10.0 | 2.6 ± 1.9 | 0.1 ± 0.2 | 0.1 ± 0.1 | 4.7 ± 3.6 |
| 4 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 5.7 ± 2.7 | 1.0 ± 0.3 | 2.7 ± 3.5 | 14.7 ± 8.0 | 72.1 ± 7.8 | 2.3 ± 1.7 | 0.5 ± 0.5 | 1.1 ± 0.3 |
| 9 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 2.4 ± 2.5 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.2 ± 0.2 | 0.4 ± 0.2 | 5.0 ± 5.2 | 91.7 ± 4.9 | 0.2 ± 0.3 |
a
Parasite preparations were stained with Giemsa stain, and at least 400 infected erythrocytes were counted. Parasites that could not be identified were counted as miscellaneous. The means and standard deviations for three experiments are shown.