red blood cells
Alphonse Laveran is credited with first describing and identifying the microscopic parasites in the red blood cells of malarial patients in 1880. His work led to the discovery of the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria.
No malaria is not visible to the naked eye. Malarial parasites are microscopic and infect red blood cells. We require a blood smear and special stain to see these parasites in the red blood cells of infected patients, under a light microscope. I hope your question was about malaria, and not maria.
Malaria is actually caused by tiny parasites that live inside the mosquitoes, not by the mosquitoes themselves. Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, and Plasmodium ovale are the 3 most common causes of malaria. (All three are commonly called "malarial parasites"--they are closely related species.)When a mosquito first bites a human, it injects some anticoagulants to keep the blood from clotting. If the mosquito happens to be infected with a malarial parasite, the parasite will be injected with the anticoagulants and will then infect the human red blood cells.
Malaria parasites divide in your red blood cells. They are liberated from there, to invade the fresh red blood cells. This cycle continues to give you bouts of malarial fever. Some of the parasites get converted into male and female gametes. When an anopheles mosquito bites you, he sucks some male and female malaria gametes. They get combined in the body of mosquito to form the zygotes. These zygotes eventually travel to the salivary gland of the mosquito. There from they are injected in the blood of next host, before the blood is sucked, to give him malaria. Malaria parasites get multiplied in the liver cells of the host, before they attack the red blood cells.
Yes, they feed on blood and are classified as parasites.
Yes. Because of the structure of hemoglobin in a patient with sickle cell anemia, malarial parasites that attempt to infect red blood cells cause the red blood cell to burst before it can be infected, effectively starving the parasite of a host. Since the allele for sickle cell anemia is codominant with the allele for regular hemglobin, sometimes people whose parents have sickle cell can pass on their resistance to malaria to their children without passing on the entire disease for sickle cell.
okay I hope this is what you were looking for. 1. the mosquito picks up a parasite (malarial) from a infected person. 2. When the mosquito bites the new person, it transfers the malarial into the new persons blood stream. 3. The parasite develops in the liver releases microorganisms into the blood stream. 4. Malaria microorganisms infect red blood cells. which causes the cells to break apart.
Dogs are not parasites because parasites suck the blood of other animals. Dogs are hosts to various parasites, such as ticks and fleas.
The parasites invade the red blood cells. They can also invade the walls of the blood vessels as well as the liver.
Blood
Yes, it is possible to have parasites in the bloodstream. Certain parasites, such as Plasmodium (causative agent of malaria), trypanosomes (causative agent of sleeping sickness), and filarial worms can infect the blood and circulate within the bloodstream. These parasites can be transmitted to humans through the bite of infected insects or through contaminated blood transfusions.
Several parasites can live in human blood, with the most notable being Plasmodium species, which cause malaria. Other blood-dwelling parasites include Trypanosoma brucei, responsible for African sleeping sickness, and Babesia species, which can cause babesiosis. These parasites typically enter the bloodstream through insect bites or contaminated blood and can lead to serious health issues if not treated.