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Mosquito taking blood meal, injecting sporozoites, quickly enter the liver
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Rupture of liver cell, as many as 30,000 parasites
Asexual cycle:
Enter RBC as feeding form "Trophozoite" (growing and feeding/ring form)
Feeds on Hb and grows & Starts to divide its nucleus (>1 nucleus- schizont)
Reaches it's maximum
RBC ruptures, releases parasites
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Develop into male gametocyte
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Develop into female gametocyte
Taken up in blood meal
Sexual cycle inside mosquito
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Trophozoites
Preferentially infects reticulocytes (larger RBCs)
Schuffner's dots (fine pink dots)
Grows in an uneven way, moulding
Fills whole RBC (like pO)
Developing schizont:
Mature schizont:
Gametocyte:
Vivax