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Science 16 September 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3742, p. 1384
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3742.1384
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Falciparum Malaria: Transmission to the Gibbon by Anopheles balabacensis

Douglas J. Gould 1, Francis C. Cadigan 1, and Ronald A. Ward 2

1 U.S. Component, SEATO Medical Research Laboratory, Bangkok, Thailand
2 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20012

The splenectomized gibbon (Hylobates lar) is susceptible to sporozoite-induced infection by sporozoites of Plasmodium falciparum. Two gibbons inoculated with sporozoites of P. falciparum from Anopheles balabacensis fed on humans with falciparum malaria developed parasitemia 48 and 46 days after infection.

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