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Pre-erythrocyte schizogony

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This phase of malaria occurs after the introduction of sporozoites, the infective form of the parasite, through the skin by the Anopheles mosquito.

In this phase the patient is asymptomatic and the patient is not infective. Sporozites that are not removed by the body's defences migrate to the liver and undergo development. After a variable period the micromerozoites are liberated. Sporozoites of P. vivax and P. ovale may remain in the liver in the form of hypnozoites.


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