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Published online 1 July 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990701-2
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A sticky situation with malaria
To survive and successfully propagate itself, the human malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) has to shuttle back and forth from our bodies to those of mosquitoes. The parasite 'tours' around our circulation in the confined spaces of erythrocytes - our red blood cells.
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