"Merozoites" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Uninuclear cells or a stage in the life cycle of sporozoan protozoa. Merozoites, released from ruptured multinucleate SCHIZONTS, enter the blood stream and infect the ERYTHROCYTES.
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D052940
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.870.740.800.500 B05.500.800.500 B05.775.740.800.500 G07.345.500.550.500.800.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Merozoites" by people in Profiles.
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Less Severe Cases of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Could Co-infection or a Recent History of Plasmodium falciparum Infection Be Protective? Front Immunol. 2021; 12:565625.
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A simple, ex vivo phagocytosis assay of Plasmodium vivax merozoites by flow cytometry. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2019; 114:e190158.
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Contribution of Functional Antimalarial Immunity to Measures of Parasite Clearance in Therapeutic Efficacy Studies of Artemisinin Derivatives. J Infect Dis. 2019 08 30; 220(7):1178-1187.
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Characterizing Blood-Stage Antimalarial Drug MIC Values In Vivo Using Reinfection Patterns. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 07; 62(7).
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Strict tropism for CD71+/CD234+ human reticulocytes limits the zoonotic potential of Plasmodium cynomolgi. Blood. 2017 09 14; 130(11):1357-1363.
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The unhealthy attraction of Plasmodium vivax to reticulocytes expressing transferrin receptor 1 (CD71). Int J Parasitol. 2017 06; 47(7):379-383.
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Avidity of anti-malarial antibodies inversely related to transmission intensity at three sites in Uganda. Malar J. 2017 02 10; 16(1):67.