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What is the difference between sporozoites and merozoites

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A sporozoite is the cell form that infects new hosts. A merozoite is the result of merogony that takes place within a host cell.

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In Plasmodium, for example, the sporozoites are cells that produce in the mosquito's salivary glands, leave the mosquito during a blood meal, and drive liver cells (hepatocytes), where they generate. Cells infected with sporozoites ultimately burst, delivering merozoites into the bloodstream. Merozoites are non-motile.A merozoite is a daughter cell of a protozoan parasite. Merozoites are the consequence of asexual propagation. Sporozoites are designed by sporogony, a type of sexual or asexual reproduction by multiple fission of a spore or zygote, representative of many sporozoans.

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