Table 1. Proportion of asexual and sexual parasite stages during gametocyte culture.

	% of parasite stages*
	Trophozoites	Gametocytes
		Stage I	Stage II	Stage III	Stage IV	Stage V
Day 0	94,5±3,1	2,7±1,2	2,7±2,3	0	0	0
Day 2	0	86,5±3,2	13,5±3,2	0	0	0
Day 4	0	1,9±0,02	80,5±3,1	17,5±3,2	0	0
Day 6	0	0	3,3±2,1	88,8±3,5	8±1,7	0
Day 8	0	0	0	6,1±1,2	76,4±3,2	17,6±2,7
Day 10	0	0	0	3,5±1,6	18,8±4,3	77,7±5,4

^*Parasite counts were performed on thin smears of parasite culture. The mean and standard deviation were calculated from three experiments.