MALARIA| Causes and prevention |life cycle of plasmodium | causative agent of malaria| Types of malaria|Symptoms of malaria| Female anopheles

 MALARIA:

       • Causative agent à Plasmodium (Protozoa)
                • P.vivex.
                •P.malaria.
               • P.falciparum à
      • Responsible for malignant malaria
      • most serious and can even be fatal.

      • Plasmodium enter the human body à as SPOROZOITES form(infectious form) through the bite of female anopheles.


      • Plasmodium multiplies in liver cells à then attack the RBCs and resulting the
rupture of RBCs .
      • Rupture of RBC associated with release of a toxic substance called HEMOZOIN
à Responsible for chill, high fever recurring every three to four days. 
      • Asexual phase à completed in liver cells and RBCs of human.
      • Gametocytes of plasmodium à develops in RBCs of human.
      • When a anopheles bite the infected person, the parasite enters the mosquito 
body where sexual cycle is completed that is fertilization and further development take place in mosquito’s gut.
      • In mosquito, parasite multiply and form sporozoites .
      • These sporozoites are stored in the salivary gland of mosquito from where they 
will infect another human through biting of mosquito.



• Most important control measure - eliminate and control the vector and their 
breeding places. 

         Ø Gambusia fish eat the larva of mosquitoes. 
         Ø Avoid the stagnation of water. 
         Ø Regular cleaning of breeding place of mosquito like cooler, aquarium and pot of 
water plants etc.
         Ø Spray of insecticides.
         Ø Chickengunya and dengue are also transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. 
 

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