Plasmodium, the parasite responsible for malaria, primarily reproduces in the mosquito vector, specifically in the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans, the parasite undergoes asexual reproduction in the liver and red blood cells, but sexual reproduction occurs exclusively in the mosquito. Thus, while plasmodium develops in the human body, it does not reproduce there; its reproductive cycle is completed in the mosquito host.
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