| 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. |
| The sporozoites released from the oocyst reproduce asexually within cells, producing merozoites that burst from those cells, each to infect a new cell. |
| Inside the liver, the sporozoites change form and then grow and divide into thousands of merozoites. |
| They then watched as sporozoites traversed Kupffer cells using a special process distinct from ordinary parasite locomotion. |
| The sporoplasm may be either a plasmodial mass, with numerous nuclei, or may form a certain number of uninuclear sporozoites. |
| Tissue damage to the host's liver, kidney, spleen, lungs, or other organs can occur when the vector injects sporozoites that enter host cells to develop into meronts. |
