Question

The malarial cell atlas: single parasite transcriptomes across the complete plasmodium life cycle

Answer 1

Answer:

MALARIA

• An infectious disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito.
• Malaria is protozoal disease.
• Causative organism is plasmodium.

1. Plasmodium vivax
2. Plasmodium falcifarum
3. Plasmodium ovale
4. Plasmodium malariae

• Vector is female anopheles.
• Host

1. Primary host is human (clinical symptoms)
2. Secondary host is female anopheles.

SYMPTOMS

• Fever chills
• Headache
• Muscular pain
• Loss of appetite (Anorexia)

Common meine for malaria is Quinine.