Malaria is caused by infection
with obligate intracellular, singlecelled protozoa of one of the four species
of plasmodium, Plasmodium falciparum , Plasmodium vivax , Plasmodium ovale and
Plasmodium malaria.
Recent human cases due to
Plasmodium Knowles were reported. Of
these, P. falciparum and P. vivax are the most predominant epidemiologically.
Malaria is transmitted when a competent vector, the different
species of female anopheles mosquitoes, take a blood meal from somebody
already infected with malaria.
About 400 species of Anopheles
mosquitoes have been described and approximately 30 of these species are
potential vectors of malaria that affect humans.Malaria is the world’s most
deadly and life-threatening parasitic disease.
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