sporozoite
noun
spo·ro·zo·ite
ˌspȯr-ə-ˈzō-ˌīt 
: a usually motile infective form of some sporozoans that is a product of sporogony and initiates an asexual cycle in the new host
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The bite of an infected mosquito sends immature parasites called sporozoites into the bloodstream.
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Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
Mosquirix, developed in the 1980s by a team in Belgium at SmithKline-RIT, now part of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), stimulates an immune response against a protein that occurs only on the sporozoites' surface.
—Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
Mosquirix, developed in the 1980s by a team in Belgium at SmithKline-RIT, now part of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), stimulates an immune response against a protein that occurs only on the sporozoites' surface.
—Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
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sporozoite
noun
spo·ro·zo·ite
-ˈzō-ˌīt
: a usually motile infective form of some sporozoans (as the malaria parasite) that is a product of sporogony and initiates an asexual cycle in the new host
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