Malaria

Question 1

Peridomestic

Answer 1

living in or around human habitation

Question 2

Sylvatic

Answer 2

disease contracted by wild animals

Question 3

Anthropophilic

Answer 3

go inside people’s houses, they like people

Question 4

What’s the name of the malaria mosquito?

Answer 4

Plasmodium spp.
~ falciparum (50% of cases, almost all death)
~ vivax (43% cases)
~ malariae
~ ovale
~ knowlesi

Question 5

Recrudescence

Answer 5

erythrocytic infection falls to subclinical/subpatent levels but is not eliminated then reappears

Question 6

Relapses

Answer 6

erythrocytic infection is eliminated but dormant hypnozoites in liver reactivate and generate a new erythrocytic infection

Question 7

Cold stage

Answer 7

shivering, then temperature rises rapidly

Question 8

Hot stage

Answer 8

peripheral vasodilation (flushed appearance), rapped pulse + high temperature

Question 9

Sweating stage

Answer 9

copious sweating = fall in temperature

Question 10

Name the symptomatic stages in Maleria

Answer 10

1. hot
2. cold
3. sweating

Question 11

Morbidity

Answer 11

the condition of being diseased

Question 12

Mortality

Answer 12

death

Question 13

DALYs

Answer 13

a.k.a. disability adjusted life years
The sum of years of potential life lost due to premature
mortality and the years of productive life lost due to disability

Question 14

List the methods of malaria detection (6).

Answer 14

1. presumptive diagnosis
2. microscopy
3. Qualtitive buffy coat
4. Antigen detection
5. PCR
6. Antibody - ELISA, IFAT

Question 15

Name the two components of malaria treatement.

Answer 15

1. supportive - manage the symptoms

2. specific - eliminate the parasite