Plasmodium

Question 1

Humans can acquire malaria by _____

Answer 1

Blood passage

Question 2

Babesia microti Taxonomy

Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:

Answer 2

Protista

Apicomplexa

Aconidasida

Piroplasmida

Babesiidae

Question 3

(5) types of malarial parasites

Answer 3

Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium vivax

Plasmodium malaria

Plasmodium ovals

Plasmodium knowlesi

Question 4

Exacerbation of persistent undetectable parasitemia, due to survival of erythrocytes forms, no exo-erythrocytes cycle

Answer 4

Recrudescence

Question 5

A vector that conveys pathogens to a susceptible individual without essential biological development

Answer 5

Mechanical vector

Question 6

A type of reinfection which occurs due to larvae produced by the pathogen already present in the body

Answer 6

Autoinfection

Question 7

Mode of transmission of Plasmodium knowlesi (3)

Answer 7

Human to human

Human to monkey

Monkey to man

Question 8

Diagnosis of malaria

Answer 8

Demonstration of malarial parasites in the peripheral smear

Question 9

Malarial parasites infected with recrudescence (2)

Answer 9

P. falciparum, P. malariae

Question 10

Reactivating of hyponozoite forms of parasite in liver separate from previous infection with same species

Answer 10

Relapse

Question 11

Malarial parasites infection with relapse (2)

Answer 11

P. vivax and P. ovale