A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.
the stage of the parasite, in the human host, that infects the red blood cells.
The asexual stage of malaria parasites that infects red blood cells.
a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle
a daughter cell of protozoan parasites
A daughter-cell formed by asexual development in the life cycle of malaria parasites. Liver-stage and blood-stage malaria parasites develop into schizonts which contain many merozoites. When the schizonts are mature, they (and their host cells!) rupture; the merozoites are released and infect red blood cells.
a stage in the life cycle of a sporozoan parasite resulting from asexual division; a daughter cell
The form of the malaria parasite that invades human red blood cells; one of the organisms formed by multiple fission of a sporozoite within the body of the host during the asexual phase of reproduction of a malarial plasmodia and other sporozoa.
A cell formed by asexual reproduction in the life cycle of plasmodium. Merozoites disperse and infect additional red blood cells within the host.
A merozoite is a daughter cell of a protozoan parasite. Merozoites are the result of asexual reproduction (schizogony, merogony). In coccidiosis, merozoites form the first phase of the internal life cycle of coccidian.