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Download Solution PDFThe name of the malaria parasite is:
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- Malaria is caused due to Protozoa Plasmodium vivax.
- It is transmitted through the female anopheles mosquito.
- The protozoan plasmodium mainly attacks red blood cells, liver, and spleen of the human body.
- There is no effective vaccine available for the treatment of Malaria.
- The only approved vaccine is RTS, S, known by the trade name of Mosquirix but it has very low efficacy.
- Medicines used to treat Malaria are hydroxychloroquine and quinine.
- Resistance to antimalarial medicines is a recurring problem.
- Resistance of P. falciparum malaria parasites to previous generations of medicines, such as chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), became widespread in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Anopheles is a genus of mosquito first described and named by J. W. Meigen in 1818.
- Female Anopheles mosquito is the carrier of malaria which when sucked blood from the patient and bite to another person which getting infected.
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