TY - JOUR AU - HOWARD, LEE M. AB - THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HYGIENE MAY, 1962 VOL. 75 NO. 3 STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM OP INFECTION OF THE MOSQUITO MIDGUT BY PLASMODIVM OALLINACEVM x BY LEE M. HOWARD 2, 3 (Received for publication December 14, 1961) The sequence of events during the of this period have been derived largely sporogonous cycle of the malaria para- from fixed material, principally the site has been widely accepted as estab- gross smear of stomach contents and the lished fact since the time of Ross and paraffin imbedded section. By them- Grassi. It has also been generally recog- selves, however, these techniques have nized that certain details of the sporog- not proven entirely satisfactory for an onous cycle have remained obscure. In over-all physiological interpretation of particular, the sequence of events which the early sporogonous cycle. transpire within the mosquito midgut It was the objective of this investiga- lumen during the presence of an opaque, tion to restudy the normal develop- clotted blood meal have been more diffi- mental cycle of the malaria parasite cult to observe than those events which during the blood meal period in the follow the appearance of oocysts on the susceptible adult female mosquito. The external side TI - STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM OF INFECTION OF THE MOSQUITO MIDGUT BY PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM1 JF - American Journal of Epidemiology DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120250 DA - 1962-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/studies-on-the-mechanism-of-infection-of-the-mosquito-midgut-by-4xujwgxnUs SP - 287 EP - 300 VL - 75 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -