Abstract
Summary
When Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium gallinaceum were allowed to deposit the sporozoites of this organism while probing into the excised skin of the chick and the mouse, the infections resulting from the intraperitoneal implantations into clean chicks of these probed pieces of skin were in the ratio of 24 from the chick skin to one from the mouse skin. It appears that there is something deleterious to the survival of the introduced plasmodium in the skin of the mouse that is not dependent upon its living state.
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