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. 2019 Oct 10;18:344. doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2949-x

Box 1.

Box 1

Summary of the proposed paradigm shift necessary to allow Plasmodium vivax long-term in vitro growth. Diagram explaining the necessary combination of two historically distinct focused approaches and postulating the need for a physiological maturation of both, the parasites and its host cell (reticulocyte) side-by-side to achieve a continuous, long-term in vitro P. vivax blood stage culture