Inhibitor of Cysteine Proteases Is Critical for Motility and Infectivity of Plasmodium Sporozoites
Malaria is transmitted when motile sporozoites are injected into the dermis by an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Inside the mosquito vector, sporozoites egress from midgut-associated oocysts and eventually penetrate the acinar cells of salivary glands. Parasite-encoded factors with exclusive vi...
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American Society of Microbiology
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870247/ |