An in vitro erythrocyte preference assay reveals that Plasmodium falciparum parasites prefer Type O over Type A erythrocytes.

falciparum genetic backgrounds, although the trend did not reach statistical significance in these cases (Fig. 4 ).

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While the same preference was seen in two of them, with a clear trend in at least one other, it is inevitably risky to extrapolate to the behaviour of all P. falciparum parasites.

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