Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic schizogony

Bitonti, A. J., McCann, P. P., and Sjoerdsma, A. (1987). Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium berghei Effects of ornithine decarboxylase inhibitors on erythrocytic schizogony. Exp. Parasitol. 64, 237-243. 

Malaria is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium, four species of which infect humans. P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, and P. ovale) (48,49). The disease is initiated when infective sporozoites are injected into the human host during feeding by an infected mosquito. The sporozoites enter parenchymal cells of the liver within minutes where they multiply asexually into merozoites. After development for 6-16 days, depending on the species, merozoites are released from the hepatic cells into the peripheral blood where they quickly bind to and invade erythrocytes. This initiates the cycle of erythrocytic schizogony in... 

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