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How Long Does it Take for Malaria to Affect the Body?

May 30, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION How long does malaria take to actually affect you? ANSWER When you are bitten by a mosquito that is infected with the parasites that cause malaria, some of the parasites enter your blood stream in the mosquito's saliva. After that, it will take at least one week, and usually between two and four weeks, before you start to feel the symptoms of the disease. This is because the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: blood, life cycle, liver, Malaria Symptoms, merozoite, mosquito, parasite, patent, pre-patent, red blood cells, saliva

Feeling Ill After Malaria Infection

May 11, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION How soon after infection, will a person usually begin to feel ill? ANSWER There is a latent period, during which time the malaria parasites (which had entered the bloodstream via the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito) migrate to the liver and undergo replication. The sporozoites (the life stage that enters the blood from the mosquito) differentiate in many merozoites, which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: life cycle, liver cells, merozoite, mosquito, reproduction, schizont, sporozoite

Examination of Malaria Parasite

October 22, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION How can you examine malaria parasites? ANSWER Malaria parasites are usually examined under a microscope using a peripheral blood smear method (also called a blood film). Thick blood smears, which use a large unsmeared drop of blood, are sensitive since a large number of red blood cells can be examined, though the parasites, if present, are difficult to distinguish … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: anti-coagulant, gametocyte, malaria diagnostic, Maurer's dots, merozoite, microscopy, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, schizont, Schüffner's dots, trophozoite

Schizont

October 20, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION What is a schizont? ANSWER A schizont is a malaria parasite which has matured and contains many merozoites, which are the parasite stage that infects red blood cells. Schizonts can be produces during two separate phases of the life cycle within the human host: first in the hepatocytic cells in the liver (when sporozoites mature) during the exo-erythrocytic cycle and then … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: erythrocytic cycle, exo-erythrocytic cycle, hepatocyte, hypnozoite, merozoite, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, red blood cells, schizont, trophozoite

Pathophysiology of Malaria

October 16, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION What is the pathophysiology of malaria? ANSWER Malaria causes disease through a number of pathways, which depend to a certain extent on the species. Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite of the genus Plasmodium; there are five species which infect humans, being Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae and P. knowlesi. All these species are introduced into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Cerebral Malaria, erythrocytic cycle, exo-erythrocytic cycle, malaria infection, Malaria life cycle, malaria pathology, merozoite, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Knowlesi, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, sporozoite

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