MALARIAL PARASITES (PLASMODIUM SPP) Flashcards
Sexual Phases
- Female Anopheles Mosquito (DH)
- Sporogony/Sporogonic Cycle
Asexual Phase
- Man or other vertebrates (IH)
- Schizogony (Erythrocytic/Exo-Erythrocytic)
- Gametogony (Merogony)
sleeping or dormant forms; causes relapse of the disease when reactivated
hypnozoites
these reinvade the hepatocytes following rupture of schizont
vivax and ovale
microgametocytes
male or female
male
macrogametocytes
male or female
female
age of RBC infected in P. falciparum
ALL
age of RBC infected in P. vivax
Young
age of RBC infected in P. ovale
Young (Retics)
age of RBC infected in P. malariae
Mature
appearance of parasitized RBC in P. falciparum
Normal; multiple
infection of RBC very
common
Appearance of
parasitized RBC in P. vivax
Larger than normal,
pale, and oval to
normal in shape
Appearance of
parasitized RBC P. ovale
Larger than normal,
oval and may have
fimbriated edges
Appearance of
parasitized RBC P. malariae
Normal in shape; size
may be normal or
slightly smaller
RBC stippling in P. falciparum
Maurer’s dot’s (occasionally seen)
RBC stippling in P. vivax
Schuffer’s dots (commonly/routinely seen)
RBC stippling in P. ovale
Schuffer’s/James dots
RBC stippling in P. malariae
Ziemann’s dots rarely seen
Stages in the peripheral blood P. falciparum
Rings, gametocytes
Stages in the peripheral blood P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae
Rings, mature trophozoite (schizont gametocytes)