sporozoite

Elongated body resulting from repeated division of the oocyst during sporogony. The initial form is a sporoblast, which develops into a sporocyst & eventually a sporozoite. In the case of malaria, it is the form concentrated in the salivary glands. The sporozoite is injected into the bloodstream via a mosquitoe bite. It enters hepatocytes where it undergoes merogony to form merozoites which infect erythrocytes resulting in the intermittent fever of malaria.

Related

malaria merogony merozoite oocyst sporoblast (zygotomere) sporocyst sporogony sporozoa

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995