Treatment of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites with the protease inhibitor E64 and mechanical filtration increases their susceptibility to complement activation

• José A. Stoute ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jstoute@psu.edu, jastoute@gmail.com

  Affiliations The Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, the Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5713-3857

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• Mary E. Landmesser,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation The Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, the Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sergei Biryukov

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Current address: USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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