"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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| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Merozoites" by people in Profiles.
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Mass Spectrometric and Artificial Intelligence-Based Identification of the Secretome of Plasmodium falciparum Merozoites to Provide Novel Candidates for Vaccine Development Pipeline. Proteomics Clin Appl. 2024 Nov; 18(6):e202300115.
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Multimodal analysis of Plasmodium knowlesi-infected erythrocytes reveals large invaginations, swelling of the host cell, and rheological defects. Cell Microbiol. 2019 05; 21(5):e13005.