Multiple choice

In humans, schizont stage of Plasmodium is found in :

  1. liver cells only

  2. liver, spleen and blood cells

  3. RBCs and liver cells

  4. RBCs only
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Explanation

Plasmodium vivax is a digenetic malarial parasite which completes its life cycle on two hosts-mosquito (primary host) and man (secondary host). The life cycle of Plasmodium in mosquito called sporogony and in man schizogony. Schizogony includes three stages of which pre-erythrocytic and exo-erythrocytic schizogony takes place in RBC of blood of man which characterized by the formation of signet ring stage and schizont. 

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