explain briefly the life cycle of plasmodium in man and mosquito
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Plasmodium completes its life cycle in two hosts, therefore, it is called digenetic endoparasite.
Man is its primary host in which it completes its asexual cycle.
Female Anopheles mosquito is its vector or secondary host in which it completes its sexual cycle.
Sporozoites are present in the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquito.
They enter the human blood and reach the liver cells.
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