These are taken up when the next mosquito bites an infected person and mature in the mosquito gut. The gametocytes fuse to form an ookinete and the ookinetes develop into new sporozoites that migrate ...

In the mosquito gut, following the encounter of female and male gametes, ookinetes will migrate through the mosquito gut wall and transform into oocysts that rupture to release oocyst sporozoites ...

The first positive experience with a malaria vaccine in the field was with SPf66, a synthetic multiepitope, multistage peptide vaccine. After showing promising results in Latin America, the ...