Archivo: Malaria

Description: Malaria is caused by a parasite (Plasmodium) transmitted to people and animals by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. The sporozoite life-stage of the parasite develops inside oocysts and are released in large numbers into the hemocoel of mosquitoes. This false-colored electron micrograph shows a sporozoite of Plasmodium bergei migrating through the cytoplasm of midgut epithelia of an Anopheles stephensi mosquito.
Title: Malaria
Credit: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030192
Author: image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear
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