[7] Malaria

Question 1

Infective Stage of Plasmodium

Answer 1

Sporozoite Stage

Question 2

First thing infected by Plasmodium

Answer 2

Liver

Question 3

Invasive Stage of Plasmodium

Answer 3

Merozoites

Question 4

What do Merozoites affect?

Answer 4

RBC

Question 5

Dormant Stage of Plasmodium vivax and ovale

Answer 5

Hypnozoite

Question 6

Definitive Host of Plasmodium

Answer 6

Anopheles

Question 7

Intermediate Host of Plasmodium

Answer 7

Humans

Question 8

Merozoites that do not mature into Schizonts instead become?

Answer 8

Gametocytes

Question 9

Anopheles flavirostris is a day or night biter?

Answer 9

Night

Question 10

What is the ideal sample to collect to diagnose Filariasis?

Answer 10

Blood

Question 11

What is the ideal time to collect to diagnose Filariasis?

Answer 11

When the patient has Fever

Manifestation of schizogony

Question 12

Most common and most virulent species of Plasmodium

Answer 12

Plasmodium falciparum

Question 13

Notable trait of RBCs in Plasmodium falciparum

Answer 13

RBCs are NOT enlarged

Question 14

Presence of this stage of Plasmodium falciparum is a bad prognosis

Answer 14

Schizonts

Question 15

Second most common species of Plasmodium

Answer 15

Plasmodium vivax

Question 16

Evidences pointing to infection with Plasmodium vivax

Answer 16

Enlargement of parasitized RBC

Cytoplasm of parasitized RBC has eosinophilic granules called Schuffner’s dots

Question 17

This species of Plasmodium presents with merozoites in a rosette formation

Answer 17

Plasmodium malariae

Question 18

These 2 species of Plasmodium have Schuffner’s dots

Answer 18

Plasmodium ovale

Plasmodium vivax

Question 19

This species of Plasmodium came from monkeys (zoonotic infection)

Answer 19

Plasmodium knowlesi