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Contact: Dr. Kai Matuschewski
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Caption: A Plasmodium sporozoite (infectious stage of the malaria parasite transmitted by mosquito bite) enters the first host cell in the human body, i.e., the liver cell.
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology / Brinkmann
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