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THE discovery of P. berghei by Vincke and Lips1 in Thamnonys, a tree rat in the Belgian Congo, was followed by the study of the parasite in rats and mice. Rodhain2 successfully infected the cotton rat with the parasite. Adler, Yoeli and Zuckerman3 found that the golden hamster and the field vole were susceptible to P. berghei infections.
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Vincke, I. H., and Lips, M., Ann. Soc. Belge de Med. Trop., 28, 97 (1948).
Rodhain, J., Ann. Soc. Belge de Med. Trop., 29, 483 (1949).
Adler, S., Yoeli, M., and Zuckerman, A., Nature, 166, 571 (1950).
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RAMAKRISHNAN, S., PRAKASH, S. Susceptibility of the Indian Garden Squirrel (Sciurus palmarum) to Plasmodium berghei and its Asexual Periodicity. Nature 167, 533 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167533a0
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