A short-term in vitro culture system that allows for significant re-invasion of target erythrocytes by Plasmodium vivax was used to study the role of the Duffy blood group antigen as a ligand for merozoite invasion by this human malaria species. Using human Duffy-positive and -negative erythrocytes, various primate erythrocytes, enzymatic modification of erythrocytes, and mAb that defines a new...
