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the round-to-ovoid, uninucleate, dormant intracellular (hepatic) stage of the malarial parasite, which succeeds the infecting sporozoite stage in Plasmodium species capable of producing malarial relapse; it is believed to be the true latent stage associated with relapse in malaria.
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