Taking the body temperature of a Thai patient suffering from malaria due to Plasmodium vivax. Malaria is the most important of all the parasitic diseases which affect humans,bringing suffering to around 200 million people each year & death to over a million of these. Of over a hundred species of the malarial parasiste (Plasmodium),only four choose humans as their natural host. They are P. falciparum,P. malariae,P. vivax & P. ovale. Although each species provokes different biological & clinical characteristics,the parasites' life cycles are similar,in both their mosquito (Anopheles sp.) & human hosts | |
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