What are sporozoites?

What are sporozoites? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of sporozoite
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Identification of Plasmodium vivax sporozoites in mosquitoes using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
Purification of Cryptosporidium oocysts and sporozoites by cesium chloride and percoll gradients.
Oocytes ingested from contaminated soil or other sources excyst in the duodenum, and released sporozoites invade the intestine.
Inside the liver, the sporozoites change form and then grow and divide into thousands of merozoites.
On the other hand, the sporozoites may lie in the salivary gland alive and virulent for several weeks.
The sexual phase of the Plasmodium life cycle is completed with the fertilization of a macrogamete by a flagellar microgamete, and the subsequent generation of sporozoites.

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