It then travels to the liver where it will mature and reproduce. When the plasmodium matures, it will infect red blood cells until they burst.
[header] How to differentiate between malaria, dengue, and chikungunya [title] Know what causes malaria. [step] Malaria is caused by plasmodium, a single-celled parasite often transmitted by infected mosquitoes. [substeps] The parasite is injected into a person's circulatory system through the saliva of the mosquito.