The life cycle of the malaria paras

The life cycle of the malaria parasites,
Plasmodium spp
In order to understand the historical events it is necessary
to summarise briefly our current state of knowledge.
Malaria is caused by infection with five species of
Plasmodium the life cycles of which are very similar
(Figure 1).
Infection begins when (1) sporozoites, the infective
stages, are injected by a mosquito and are carried