Life cycle of Plasmodium

Life cycle of Plasmodium Plasmodium vivax is a digenic parasite, involving two hosts, man as the secondary host and female Anopheles mosquito as the primary host. The life cycle of Plasmodium involves three phases namely schizogony, gamogony and sporogony (Fig. . ) . The parasite first enters the human blood stream through the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. As it feeds, the mosquito injects the saliva containing the sporozoites . The sporozoite within the blood stream immediately enters the hepatic cells of the liver. Further in XII Std Zoology Chapter XII Std Zoology Chapter Human Health and Diseases