Mosquito bite from an

infected Anopheles
mosquito

Saliva is injected
under the skin

Will travel to the

bloodstream as
MEROZOITES

Migrate to the liver as SYPTOMATIC

HEPATOCYTES INFECTION

TISSUE Released in the bloodstream as

SCHIZONT MEROZIOTES Chills (Cold Stage)

Remain dormant in RBC invasion and destruction Low RBC Count

liver as
HYPNOZOITES TROPHOZOITE

Will undergo maturity

Relapsing Malaria
(P. vivax; P. ovale)
SCHIZONT

Production of the next

generation of
MEROZOITES

Invasion of previously WOF Blackwater

uninfected RBC fever (Hematuria)

Blood will be taken up by

an anopheles mosquito

GAMETOCYTES

Will undergo maturity

Will produce male and

female GAMETES

Sexual Reproduction

ZYGOTES

Will travel to the GIT of

the anopheles mosquito as
OOCYST

Will undergo maturity

SPOROZOITES

Travel to the upper GIT

and mix with its saliva