Fig. 2
From: Trustworthy deep learning for malaria diagnosis using explainable artificial intelligence
Life cycle of the plasmodium parasite in humans and mosquitoes. The cycle begins when an infected female Anopheles mosquito injects sporozoites into the human bloodstream (1). These travel to the liver, where they mature into schizonts during the liver stage (2). Schizonts rupture, releasing merozoites into the bloodstream to initiate the blood stage (3), where they invade red blood cells and multiply. Some parasites develop into gametocytes, which are taken up by another mosquito during a subsequent bite (4). Inside the mosquito, the gametocytes mature, completing the sexual reproduction phase (5), thereby enabling transmission to another human host.
