Quantification of sporozoite invasion, migration, and development by microscopy and flow cytometry

Methods Mol Biol. 2013:923:385-400. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-026-7_27.

Abstract

There is an important role for in vitro assays to better understand the initial steps of malaria infection. In this section, we describe both microscopy-based and flow cytometry-based sporozoite invasion, migration and development assays with the rodent malaria parasites, Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium yoelii, and the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anopheles / parasitology
  • Cell Culture Techniques
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Movement*
  • Flow Cytometry / methods*
  • Hep G2 Cells
  • Hepatocytes / parasitology*
  • Hepatocytes / pathology
  • Humans
  • Malaria / parasitology
  • Mice
  • Microscopy / methods*
  • Plasmodium / growth & development*
  • Sporozoites / metabolism*