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Plasmodium yoelii merosome
After budding from an infected hepatocyte and leaving the liver, a Plasmodium yoelii merosome containing dozens of merozoites has been arrested in a lung capillary. The malaria parasites will eventually burst out of the merosome and infect red blood cells (see Baer et al, page e171).
Image Credit: Photograph provided by Kerstin Baer, New York University School of Medicine.
Citation: (2007) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 3(11) November 2007. PLoS Pathog 3(11): ev03.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v03.i11
Published: November 30, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 Baer et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
After budding from an infected hepatocyte and leaving the liver, a Plasmodium yoelii merosome containing dozens of merozoites has been arrested in a lung capillary. The malaria parasites will eventually burst out of the merosome and infect red blood cells (see Baer et al, page e171).
Image Credit: Photograph provided by Kerstin Baer, New York University School of Medicine.