Example 1 · difficulty 3/5
In a patient suffering from malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax, the parasite stage that directly invades the red blood corpuscles of the human host is:
- A. Merozoite liberated on rupture of infected liver cells
- B. Sporozoite injected during the mosquito bite
- C. Gametocyte circulating in the peripheral blood
- D. Trophozoite residing in the salivary gland of Anopheles