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Each Plasmodium has two distinct hosts
- A vertebrate such as the human where asexual phase (schizogony) takes place in the liver and red blood cells
- An arthropod host (Anopheles mosquito) where gametogony (sexual phase) and sporogony take place.
Cause disease by a wide variety of mechanisms, including metabolism of hemoglobin and lysis of infected cells leading to anemia and to agglutination of infected RBC.
Cause Paroxysms (chills, fever spike, and malarial rigors) when the infected RBC are lysed, liberating a new crop of merozoites.
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