Q. Which one of the following is the infective stage of the Malarial Parasite?
Answer: Sporozoite
Notes: When female anopheles, a mosquito sucks the blood of a person who has malaria parasites in blood, the mosquito picks male and female gametocytes. These undergo a series of changes to before developing into sporozoites. Present in salivary glands. The sporozoites are the infective stages of malaria parasites in the mosquito. This process takes about 10 - 14 days depending on environmental temperature.

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