Inhibitor of Cysteine Proteases Is Critical for Motility and Infectivity of <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Sporozoites

ABSTRACT Malaria is transmitted when motile sporozoites are injected into the dermis by an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Inside the mosquito vector, sporozoites egress from midgut-associated oocysts and eventually penetrate the acinar cells of salivary glands. Parasite-encoded factors with exc...

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Main Authors: Katja E. Boysen, Kai Matuschewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013-12-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00874-13