WEHI-TV animations: These malaria animations (used with permission from WEHI, http://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv/) illustrate important moments of the parasite's lifecycle: infection of the human victim through the mosquito's proboscis; invading and incubating in the liver; penetrating and feeding upon red blood cells, multiplying and spreading to other blood cells:
Plasmodium Life Cycle
Mosquito-spread infection
Penetration of Red Blood Cells
Bursting of Red Blood Cells

 
Plasmodium Life Cycle reproduced with permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature, Copyright 2002. Mosquito-spread infection, Penetration of Red Blood Cells, and Bursting of Red Blood Cells reproduced with permission from The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Copyright 2005.
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