What is the parasite that causes malaria?

Answer 1

THere are 3:

1. Plasmodium vivax/ovale: you get tertian (48 hour cycle) fevers, and this one can stay dormant in your liver so you need to treat it with primaquine to kill it there also on top of chloroquine.
2. Plasmodium falciparum: The most common and the worst one to get. Severe, daily fever cycles. The RBC's c the parasites can occlude capillaries in the brain = cerebral malaria, kidneys, and lungs.
3. Plasmodium malariae: Quartan (72 hour) cyclic fever, headache, anemia, splenomegaly.

You ID these on blood smear and the vector is a mosquito.

Answer 2

Genus Plasmodium Species vivax, falciparum, ovale, malariae.

Answer 3

The cause of malaria is an infection with a malaria parasite. There are several types of malaria parasites, each belonging to the genus Plasmodium.

Answer 4

Plasmodium sp.

Answer 5

four species of Plasmodium

Answer 6

Protozoan

Answer 7

Plasmodium