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The human malaria parasites,\n                    <jats:italic>Plasmodium falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>P. vivax<\/jats:italic>\n                    , have a preference to invade reticulocytes during blood-stage infection. Rodent malaria parasites that also prefer reticulocytes could be useful tools to study human malaria reticulocyte invasion. However, previous tropism studies of rodent malaria are inconsistent from one another, making it difficult to compare cell preference of different parasite species and strains.\n                    <jats:italic>In vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    measurements of cell tropism are also subjected to many confounding factors. Here we developed an\n                    <jats:italic>ex vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    tropism assay for rodent malaria with highly purified fractions of murine reticulocytes and normocytes. We measured invasion into the different erythrocyte populations using flow cytometry and evaluated the tropism index of the parasite strains. We found that\n                    <jats:italic>P. berghei<\/jats:italic>\n                    ANKA displayed the strongest reticulocyte preference, followed by\n                    <jats:italic>P. yoelii<\/jats:italic>\n                    17X1.1, whereas\n                    <jats:italic>P. chabaudi<\/jats:italic>\n                    AS and\n                    <jats:italic>P. vinckei<\/jats:italic>\n                    S67 showed mixed tropism. These preferences are intrinsic and were maintained at different reticulocyte and normocyte availabilities. 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