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Title: Malaria chart 📉
Description: A disease caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.
Description: A disease caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.
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The Life Cycle of Malaria
To start the cycle, an infected
female Anopheles mosquito
injects sporozoites into the
skin while feeding
...
3
Within liver cells, the
parasites develop into
schizonts
...
4
3
2
SPOROZOITES
1
The schizonts rupture, releasing
thousands of individual merozoites into the bloodstream
...
GAMETOCYTES
8
BLOOD CELL
13
SALIVARY GLANDS
RUPTURED SCHIZONT
SPOROZOITES
GAMETES
12
9
7
When the mosquito feeds,
gametocytes are ingested
into its stomach
...
9
The male gamete fuses
with the female gamete
producing a zygote
...
11
The ookinetes develop into oocysts
...
The sporozoites migrate to the salivary glands,
ready to be injected and renew the cycle
...
TROPHOZOITE
RING
STAGE
Another mosquito
becomes infected,
continuing the cycle
GAMETOCYTES
6
Some parasites change into male and
female forms called gametocytes
Title: Malaria chart 📉
Description: A disease caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.
Description: A disease caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.