STUDIES ON THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF THE HUMAN MALARIAS. I. METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE ASSAY OF SUPPRESSIVE ANTIMALARIAL ACTION IN VIVAX MALARIA.

01 May 1948
Shannon JA, Earle DP, Berliner RW, Taggart JV

The wartime program for the development of new antimalarial drugs made apparent the need for satisfactory techniques for the assay of their activities in the human malarias. It seemed likely that the use of blood-induced malaria would partly satisfy this need. Information which has accrued since the beginning of these studies now permits the interpretation of results obtained with this type of infection in terms of a reasonable hypothesis concerning the biology of the malarias.

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