QUESTIONPlease tell about about malarial causitive proteins.ANSWERI'm not sure what your question is, as malaria is not caused by a protein, but rather by a single-celled parasite called Plasmodium, which contains many different types of proteins. Some of these are indeed used for entering host cells and thus causing disease. Many of these proteins, and particularly ones on the surface … [Read more...]
Causes of Malaria
QUESTIONWhat are the causes of malaria?ANSWERMalaria is caused by a single-celled parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Five species infect humans: P. vivax, P. falciparum, P. ovale, P. malariae and P. knowlesi.Learn more about the causes of malaria." … [Read more...]
Malaria Origins
QUESTIONWhat is the origin of malaria?ANSWERMalaria is caused by a single-celled parasite of the genus Plasmodium. There are five difference species of Plasmodium which infect humans - these all likely evolved from various different species of Plasmodium which infect other primates, such as gorillas (for P. falciparum) and macaques (P. vivax, P. knowlesi, possibly other types as well). … [Read more...]
How Long Does it Take for Malaria to Affect the Body?
QUESTIONHow long does malaria take to actually affect you?ANSWERWhen 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...]
Scientific Name of Malaria
QUESTIONwhat is the scientific name of malaria?ANSWERMalaria is caused by a single celled parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Five species infect humans, and their scientific names are Plasmodium falciparum (the most severe and deadly kind), P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae and P. knowlesi. … [Read more...]
What is Malaria?
QUESTIONWhat is malaria?What is the parasite that causes malaria?ANSWERMalaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite, of the genus Plasmodium, that commonly infects a certain type of mosquito (of the genus Anopheles) which feeds on humans. People who get malaria are typically very sick with high fevers, shaking chills, and flu-like illness. Four kinds of … [Read more...]
Malaria Explained
QUESTIONWhat is malaria?ANSWERMalaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite, of the genus Plasmodium, that commonly infects a certain type of mosquito (of the genus Anopheles) which feeds on humans. People who get malaria are typically very sick with high fevers, shaking chills, and flu-like illness. Four kinds of malaria parasites can infect humans: Plasmodium … [Read more...]
What Causes Malaria
QUESTIONWhat are the causes of malaria?ANSWERMalaria is caused by infection with certain single-celled parasites of the genus Plasmodium. Specifically, there are five species which infect humans: P. falciparum (the most severe and dangerous form of malaria), P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae and P. knowlesi.The symptoms of the disease occur when the parasite enters the blood stream … [Read more...]
What year was the cause of malaria discovered?
QUESTIONWhen did they find out that a bug bite caused malaria, and what year was that?ANSWERIn 1880, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran observed that malaria was caused by a parasite in the blood; it wasn't until 1897-1898 that Ronald Ross, a British Army medical doctor, discovered that the parasite could be transmitted between hosts (he used birds for his experiments) by mosquitoes. … [Read more...]
How Long Does it Take to Feel Ill from Malaria?
QUESTIONHow soon does a person usually to feel ill after malaria infection?ANSWERAfter being bitten by an infected mosquito, there is an "incubation period" before the person begins to suffer from symptoms of malaria. This time corresponds to the period the malaria parasite spends in the liver; it is once it enters the blood and begins to destroy red blood cells that initiate the onset … [Read more...]