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GB 0809 Ross - Ross, Col Sir Ronald (1857-1932)
- 13 - Letters from Ross to Patrick Manson on Ross' research into the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes

Ref No	GB 0809 Ross/13/87
Level	Item
Title	Letter
Date	30/3/1898
Description	The pigmented cells seem to grow and fill with a clear liquid until about six or seven days after mosquitoes have fed on infected blood, then they burst and their contents disappear, and that after each meal of infected blood a fresh crop of cells appears. He discusses the effect of staining on the cells which he thinks are coccidia, he is preparing specimens for Manson and he has discovered that he is bursting the cells when putting them under a cover glass and that by the eleventh day they are huge.
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English

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