148.The infective stage of malarial parasite, Plasmodium that enters human body is (a) merozoite (b) sporozoite (c) trophozoite (d) minuta form.
Option B The infective stage of Plasmodium is a minute organism called sporozoite. When the mosquito bites man, sporozoites present in the salivary gland of female Anopheles mosquito are injected into the blood of the man. These sporozoites are spindleshaped or sickleshaped uninucleate organisms capable of wrigging (worm like) movements. Each sporozoite consists of elastic pellicle, cytoplasm and nucleus.
