Fingani Mphande, Sandra NilssonAhmed Bolad2017-09-172017-09-172008http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5283Comment: For growing parasites from patient blood, use 10 g of Albumax for 1 liter of complete MCM. The vast majority of cultures will survive at least 2 weeks. It is also important to avoid serum in the culture for preparation of crude parasite antigen (see SEROLOGY, section III: B). Not all strains can be adopted to Albumax II medium.enCulturing erythrocyticCulturing of erythrocytic asexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax