Diseases and Treatment: IV. Other Parasitic Diseases

Malaria is transmitted most commonly by Plasmodium parasite whose carrier is female Anopheles mosquito. The spleen, which often becomes enlarged in malaria, is most affected part of the body. Quinine is the age-old traditional drug for treatment of malaria. Other effective drugs are camaquine, daraprim, resochin, etc.

Malaria is transmitted most commonly by Plasmodium parasite whose carrier is female Anopheles mosquito. The spleen, which often becomes enlarged in malaria, is most affected part of the body. Quinine is the age-old traditional drug for treatment of malaria. Other effective drugs are camaquine, daraprim, resochin, etc.

Malaria is transmitted most commonly by Plasmodium parasite whose carrier is female Anopheles mosquito. The spleen, which often becomes enlarged in malaria, is most affected part of the body. Quinine is the age-old traditional drug for treatment of malaria. Other effective drugs are camaquine, daraprim, resochin, etc.

Malaria is transmitted most commonly by Plasmodium parasite whose carrier is female Anopheles mosquito. The spleen, which often becomes enlarged in malaria, is most affected part of the body. Quinine is the age-old traditional drug for treatment of malaria. Other effective drugs are camaquine, daraprim, resochin, etc.

Malaria is transmitted most commonly by Plasmodium parasite whose carrier is female Anopheles mosquito. The spleen, which often becomes enlarged in malaria, is most affected part of the body. Quinine is the age-old traditional drug for treatment of malaria. Other effective drugs are camaquine, daraprim, resochin, etc.

Malaria is transmitted by the bite of female Anopheles mosquito while dengue is from female Aedes aegypti mosquito. Except this, Elephantiasis and yellow fever is also spread by mosquito.

Malaria is caused by a protozoa parasite called plasmodium and its carrier is female anopheles mosquito, which is secondary host.

Malaria disease is caused by plasmodium parasite which is a protozoa. Thus option (a) is not true. Other three options are correct.

Plasmodium vivax is a protozoan parasite and a human pathogen, the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. P. vivax is one of the five species of malaria parasites and it is responsible for about 65% cases of malaria in India. Actually Plasmodium vivax accounts for 65% of malaria cases in Asia and South America.