CD36 and infection: We infected BMDMs derived from WT (C57BL/6) or CD36-/- mice with a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of three parasites per macrophage and observed that the size of the PVs was similar between CD36-/- and WT at 8 h post-infection but by 24 h the PVs of WT macrophages were significantly larger (Fig 6A and 6B).