How malaria parasites hide from the human immune system
The parasite may turn genes on or off to allow the spleen to clean up infected blood cells
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Once transmitted to a person via mosquito bite, the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (shown purple), multiplies within red blood cells.
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