1 | It's no wonder that I have always been fascinated by red blood cells, or erythrocytes. | |
2 | It literally drives the oxygen out of the red blood cells. | |
3 | So, red blood cells of most African people do not express the Duffy blood-group protein. | |
4 | Now, the Duffy blood-group protein is essentially necessary for Plasmodium vivax to get into the red cell. | |
5 | Malaria parasites multiply rapidly in the liver and then in red blood cells of the infected person. |