Description
Material provided: Fixed sample or extract
Unit definition: 50 infected females
Storage conditions: -80°C
Shipping conditions: Non-infectious. In dry ice.
Vector information
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Anopheles
Species: Anopheles coluzzii
Strain Name: Mali-Infravec
Place of origin: Nanguilabougou, Mali
Date of colonisation: 2018
Parasite information
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Genus: Plasmodium
Species: Plasmodium falciparum
Strain: NF-54
Infectivity: Infectivity tested and quantified
Mycoplasmic content: Mycoplasma contamination.
Production conditions
1-3 day-old female mosquitoes are fed on an infectious blood-meal using a membrane feeding device. Unfed females are removed and fully engorged females are maintained under standard conditions on a 10% sucrose solution.
Publications
- Ponnudurai, T., Leeuwenberg, A. D. and Meuwissen, J. H. (1981) Chloroquine sensitivity of isolates of Plasmodium falciparum adapted to in vitro culture. Tropical and Geographical Medicine 33, 50-54.
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