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Anopheles sp. mosquito

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This illustration depicts an Anopheles sp. mosquito transmitting sporozoites while obtaining a blood meal.

During a blood meal, a malaria-infected female Anopheles sp. mosquito inoculates its human host with sporozoites, which then infect human liver cells, where they mature into schizonts, which finally rupture, releasing merozoites.
 
 

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