14+ Simple Malaria Life Cycle Diagram Pics

14+ Simple Malaria Life Cycle Diagram Pics. Education and information about lymphatic filariasis biology, specifically the life cycle of wuchereria bancrofti. Like all mosquitoes, anopheles mosquitoes go through four stages in their life cycle:

Humans and female anopheles mosquitoes.

Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite called plasmodium. In the life cycle of plasmodium, a female anopheles mosquito (the definitive host) transmits a motile infective form (called the sporozoite) to a vertebrate host such as a human (the secondary host), thus acting as a transmission vector. Malaria parasite life cycle  infection with human malaria begins when feeding female anopheline mosquito inoculates plasmodial sporozites at the time of feeding. Mosquito takes a blood meal (ingests gametocytes).