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Malaria is caused by a parasite that the mosquito carries, malaria is caused by the unicellular protozoan parasite and genus plasmodium.
So the mosquito in this case is specifically called aniles. From the aniles genus and they carry the parasite. Plasmodium malaria is a problem especially in developing and tropical countries. There are 300 to 500 million cases of malaria each year and 2 to three million 0:55 deaths annually and this occurs mainly in children so plasmodium is a parasitic genus that causes malaria.
there are actually few types of plasmodium that infect man. These are the plasmodium vivax. Plasmodium falum plasmodium malaria and plasmodium ovale now as the name suggests.
Life cycle of a mosquito. An adult female mosquito lays eggs which develop through several stages to adulthood. Reproduction completes and perpetuates the cycle.Wikimedia
You would probably think plasmodium malaria is the main agent like a causative agent but it's actually not plasmodium VX and plasmodium falum are the main agents of malaria.
Let's have a look at how the plasmodium infects humans and what happens by looking at its life cycle from the time it enters a human body.
The liver has a main role in the malarial infection. A female aniles mosquito which is carrying the plasmodium parasite. It is a female because female mosquitoes are the one that bites and sucks blood from humans and infects humans. So first what happens during the life cycle is that a mosquito injects a sporozoite when it bites the human.
The sporo gets injected into the bloodstream. The sporo travels to the liver via the blood and will take up
residence in the hepatocytes which are the liver cells. So here the sporo will begin multiplying asexually to form many marides if there are many marides this is collectively known as a shant all these marides are then released by The hepatocytes back into the bloodstream by rupturing the hepatocytes.
This occurs about 7 to 10 days later so here in the blood. we have this Mezo. Now in the blood all these meiteis will begin invading erythrocytes the red blood cells and multiply again within the red blood cells to form many more MERUZUITES until the red blood cells burst releasing them into the blood bloodstream.
The mosquito in this case a female can then bite another human and infect it causing malaria and this cycle will continue. The infected Anopheles mosquito can then inject the parasite sporozoite into another human being causing malaria.
So how would you treat malaria.
Well you are treated with a group of drugs known as quinine.
The complications that can arise with malaria include spleen enlargement, enlargement of the liver, pulmonary edema, renal failure, jaundice as well as high fever.
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