Artificial nighttime lighting impacts Plasmodium falciparum mature stage V gametocytes infectivity in Anopheles stephensi

Table 1 P. falciparum in vitro culture parameters

	In vitro culture paramaters
	Exp 1	Exp 2	Exp 3
Parasitemia at induction (%)	5	4	6
Ring percentage at induction (%)	100	96	92
Age on day of SMFA (days)	15	16	15
Gametocyte Stage V (%)	1.10	1.73	1.10
Male: Female	1:2.3	1:2.2	1:2.5
RBCs 10 6 /ml	272	270	308
Exflagellation/field in the SMFA⁽¹⁾	47	88	52

The table depicts the different parameters recorded during the in vitro production of Plasmodium falciparum stage V gametocytes that were used to infect mosquitoes through the Standard Membrane Feeding Assay (SMFA) for three independent experiments
⁽¹⁾Count by eye under microscope when SMFA are performed

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