Research Article

Plasmodium falciparum: Assessment of Selectivity of Action of Chloroquine, Alchornea cordifolia, Ficus polita, and Other Drugs by a Tetrazolium-Based Colorimetric Assay

Figure 1

Effects of number of red blood cells (a) and parasitemia (b) on P. falciparum cytopathicity, that is, optical density of mock-infected RBCs minus optical density of parasite-infected RBCs . Infection was done with strain 3D7.
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