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. 2008 Sep 8;7:171. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-171

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Scheme of re-emerging malaria during the Continuation War. In crowded conditions with mosquitoes the malaria epidemic starts with mosquito triggered relapses in hypnozoite carriers. In the next step mosquitoes become infective and gradually spread sporozoites into healthy humans. After the war hypnozoite carriers got relapses if Anopheles mosquitoes were present.