Important Notes Human Health & Diseases:
Important Notes Human Health & Diseases: Diseases caused by Protozoa 1. Malaria Malaria is a life-threatening disease that’s typically transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoan belonging to the Plasmodium type. There are four species of Plasmodium which causes four main types of malaria in human are: Plasmodium falciparum (Malignant tertian malaria) Plasmodium malariae (Quartian malaria) Plasmodium vivax (Benign tertian malaria) Plasmodium ovate (Mild tertian malaria) Life Cycle of Plasmodium: The natural ecology of malaria involves malaria parasites infecting successively two types of hosts: humans and female Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans, the parasites grow and multiply first in the liver cells and then in the red cells of the blood. In the blood, successive broods of parasites grow inside the red cells and destroy them, releasing daughter parasites ...