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Humans become infected with the malarial parasite when mosquitoes inject __________ into the bloodstream.

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Mosquitos inject sporozoites into the bloodstream along with their saliva when they numb a small area of the skin as they pierce it in order to draw blood. The sporozoites form in the mosquitos digestive track as the rebut of combining the male and female gametes of the malaria virus.
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