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On synchronous sporulation with possible reference to malarial parasites

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With the view of suggesting a possible mechanism, it is shown that sporulation may be synchronous, as with the malarial parasite, given the following condition: A metabolite which is essential to the growth of the parasite is periodically released from storage organs and dissipated from the blood stream of the host.

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    Alston S. Householder

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Householder, A.S. On synchronous sporulation with possible reference to malarial parasites. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 5, 149–154 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478262

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