Improvement of detection specificity of Plasmodium‐infected murine erythrocytes by flow cytometry using autofluorescence and YOYO‐1

Microscopic analysis of blood smears is currently the most frequently used method to measure parasitemias in experiments of drug efficacy in murine models of malaria. However, it is subjective and labour intensive, which preclude its utilization in large‐scale evaluation programs. Flow cytometry is an alternative method, but due to the limited specificity achieved with the currently available techniques, it has not been widely used in murine models of malaria during preclinical evaluation. We describe a new flow cytometric method based on the differences of autofluorescence and DNA content measured after staining with YOYO‐1 that are observed in infected erythrocytes compared with noninfected erythrocytes.

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