The Basic Parasite Nucleofector Kit 1 is one of our two Nucleofector Kits suited for transfecting parasites e g Plasmodium berghei or Trypanosoma brucei in Nucleofector 2b System Parasitic protozoa infect vertebrates and invertebrates and some are even parasitic in plants In humans they can cause severe diseases such as Malaria (Plasmodium) Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosoma) or Leishmaniasis (Leishmania) Nucleofection has proven to provide considerably higher transfection efficiencies (e g in Plasmodium berghei and Trypanosoma brucei) compared to standard methods such as electroporation or particle bombardment Due to significant genotypic and phenotypic diversity between species and life cycles we have developed two Basic Parasite Nucleofector Kits (1 and 2) and an easy-to-use Basic Parasite Nucleofector Starter Kit to determine which of the 2 kits is optimal for a specific parasite type