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Humans develop malaria after the injection of Plasmodium ____________________ into the bloodstream by an infected female Anopheles mosquito when she takes a blood meal.

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Answer: sporozites

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Malaria involves cyclical infection of humans by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans.

this mosquitos are parasites and they grow first in the liver cells and multiply, after which they grow in the red cells of the blood. When

Gametocytes a form of blood stage parasite is taken in during blood feeding by a female Anopheles mosquito they multiply by mating in the mosquito gut after which they form a sporozites after 10-18days. This sporozites moves to their salivary gland such that when they feed on human blood the sporozite plasmodium is injected into human body from where they move to the liver and begin their life cycle.

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