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METABOLIC CHANGES OF THE MALARIA PARASITE DURING THE TRANSITION FROM THE HUMAN TO THE MOSQUITO HOST
1 Oct 1998
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Plasmodium falciparum is an obligate human parasite that is the causative agent of the most lethal form of human malaria. Transmission of P. falciparum to a new human host requires a mosquito vector within which sexual replication occurs. P. falciparum replicates as an intracellular parasite in man and as an extracellular parasite in the mosquito, and it undergoes multiple developmental changes in both hosts....
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