P. vivax Flashcards
What is the other name of P. vivax?
benign tertian malaria
P. vivax is _____?
most prevalent human malaria parasite
It is found in ___?
Asia, Latin America and some parts of Africa
P. vivax and P. ovale have____, which both of them are the _____?
dormant liver stages HYPNOZOITES
P. vivax RBC size was?
enlarge, distorted, 1.5 times size
What is the infected RBC of P. vivax?
young and immature RETICULOCYTES
The eosinophilic stippling of this plasmodium is____?
Schuffners’s dots expect early ring forms
The cytoplasm in P. vivax RBC is___?
irregular (blue)
ameboid trophozoite
The pigment of P. vivax is
Golden-brown, inconspicuous
Multiple infection
Not common
Who has named after the P. vivax _____? and who described them in 1904?
Wilhem Schuffer
The multiple brick-red dots _____?
ROMANOWSKY STAINED
Reasons why P. vivax infects reticulocytes im young RBC
- DARC-duffy antigen receptor chemokine
- PvRBPf-P.vivax reticulocytee-binding protein family
- TfRq-transferrin receptor 1
In the trophozoite, they have_____, ______, ______?
Ring trophozoite, Growing trophozoites, Large trophozoite
Signet-ring formed a ____?
heavy red dot and blue cytoplasmic