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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Parasitol. 2016 May 27;32(9):697–707. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.04.014

Figure 2. Capacity of phenotypic drug screening at the indicated malaria lifecycle stages.

Figure 2

Asexual blood stage screens require the least amount of labor and specialized materials and thus can be used to evaluate very large libraries. Assays at the top of the pyramid are very labor intensive and can only be applied to a small number of compounds [15-21,42].