1tion steps prior to being placed on a linear sucrose gradient. The mean density of the sporozoites isolated from the peak fraction was 1.157 g/cm3 and the number of sporozoites recovered per mosquito was estimated to be 45,000. The technique can readily be extended to the isolation of sporozoites of other plasmodia1 species and produces a greater yield than is possible by conventional dissection methods .
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