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A malarial sporozoite in an infected epithelial cell.
Malaria is transmitted to people and animals by mosquitoes. Malarial sporozoites develop inside oocysts and are released in large numbers into the hemocoel of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. This false-colored electron micrograph shows a sporozoite migrating through the cytoplasm of midgut epithelia. See Frevert et al.
Image Credit: Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear
Citation: (2005) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 3(6) June 2005. PLoS Biol 3(6): ev03.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v03.i06
Published: June 28, 2005
Copyright: © 2005 Ute Frevert. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Malaria is transmitted to people and animals by mosquitoes. Malarial sporozoites develop inside oocysts and are released in large numbers into the hemocoel of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. This false-colored electron micrograph shows a sporozoite migrating through the cytoplasm of midgut epithelia. See Frevert et al.
Image Credit: Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear