Vivax

  1. Mosquito taking blood meal, injecting sporozoites, quickly enter the liver

  2. divide

  3. divide

  4. divide

  5. Rupture of liver cell, as many as 30,000 parasites




Asexual cycle:


  2. Enter RBC as feeding form "Trophozoite" (growing and feeding/ring form)

  3. Feeds on Hb and grows & Starts to divide its nucleus (>1 nucleus- schizont)


  5. Reaches it's maximum

  6. RBC ruptures, releases parasites

  7. x

  8. x

  9. x

  10. x

  11. x

  12. x

  13. Develop into male gametocyte

  14. x

  15. Develop into female gametocyte

  16. Taken up in blood meal

Sexual cycle inside mosquito

  1. x

Thin film features

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