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Sporozoite
In the life-cycle of apicomplexan protozoa, sporozoites (sporos, seed + zoon, animal) are cells that infect new hosts. In the parasites that cause malaria (Plasmodium), for instance, the sporozoites are cells that develop in the mosquito's salivary glands, leave the mosquito during a blood meal, and enter the liver where they multiply. Cells infected with sporozoites eventually burst, releasing merozoites into the bloodstream.

Sporozoites are formed by sporogony, a type of sexual or asexual reproduction by multiple fission of a spore or zygote, characteristic of many sporozoans.

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sporogony
Jan 01, 1998; sporogony A process of reproduction in which a zygote undergoes multiple fission.
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Sporozoa
Jan 01, 2003; Sporozoa The fifth Phylum of the Protist Kingdom, known as Apicomplexa, gathers several species of obligate intracellular...
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