The Effect of Oxygen Tension on Plasmodium Gallinaceum Malaria in Chicks

lesi, that multiplication and reinvasion of new cells was lower in atmospheres of oxygen than in nitrogen. Porter3 has reported that chick or duck blood, infected with Plasmodium lophurae, progressively decreased in infectivity following increasing exposures to oxygen at various pressures. It appeared desirable, therefore, to determine the effect of high oxygen tensions on the hostparasite relation in chicks ififected with P. gallinaceum.