'Protozoans' is the term usually used to talk about the protists that cause malaria in humans or in other vertebrate erythrocytes. Protozoa belong to a large group of eukaryotic organisms that are single-celled. These are usually microscopic and include amoeba, ciliates, flagellates and sporozoans. In malaria, the protozoans can also be called 'malaria parasites.'
Transmission:
The sporozoan protozoa that cause malaria are transmitted through a mosquito feeding upon the blood of an infected host and ingesting a number of these parasites. The protozoa develop within the mosquito and are secreted through its saliva to infect other potential hosts when bitten. Once inside a human (or other vertebrate erythrocyte hosts), they can spend a protracted period (from weeks or months to, potentially, years) inside the host's liver and spleen, where they reproduce in the blood (specifically, within the red blood cells, erythrocytes).
Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by any of a number of protozoans spread by the female Anopheles mosquito. Only Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria, and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken from an infected host. It is common in tropical and subtropical climates in endemic areas including much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Americas. These locations have significant amounts of rain fall and consistent hot temperatures. These warm, consistent temperatures and moisture provide mosquitoes with the environment they need to breed continuously year round.
Scientific names:
The causative organisms include protists of the genus Plasmodium. The three most common organisms in malaria infections are P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. falciparum. Falciparum malaria is the most serious of the three, causing about 80% of all cases of human malaria and 90% of deaths, and is becoming more frequently drug resistant. Another less common type of Plasmodium that can cause malaria is P. malariae. A fifth type, P. knowlesi, is not thought to infect humans.
Prevention:
To prevent the disease, a person in the areas where these mosquitoes live should reduce the number of bites they receive. Mosquito netting used around beds can reduce the number of mosquitoes and bites and mosquito repellents also help.
Symptoms:
Symptoms of malaria are fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anemia, hemoglobinuria (when your urine turns red), retinal damage, and convulsions. The classic symptom of malaria is occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigors (shaking), then fever and sweating lasting four to six hours, which occurs every two days.
Other facts:
Malaria is caused by malarial protozoa, and bacteria responsible for it is plasmodium
There are 6 different infections critters, a bacterium is only one out of six. Malaria is caused by any of four different Plasmodium parasites.
The type of microbe which causes Malaria is Protozoa... well that's what i was told by my science teacher :) x
ronald ross
No, the parasite that causes malaria is not a type of euglenoid. The parasite that causes malaria is a type of protozoan.
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aleksander popovic
it is called malaria
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A microbe is an organism that can be seen using a microscope. They include fungi, bacteria, viruses, archea and protists. All except fungi consist of a single cell, although microbe diversity is vast. Microbes are the causes of many diseases, such as the common cold, the black death and malaria.
Malaria is caused by a parasite called as plasmodium. It is a protozoa. There are four species which causes malaria commonly. They are plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale and plasmodium malariae. Out of which plasmodium falciparum is most dangerous. almost 500 million cases of malaria occur in the world. Most of them in tropical countries.
Plasmodium vivax causes malaria. check on Google to be sure though just type Plasmodium causes malaria protist.
both depending on what type of microbe
There is no known microbe that causes Leukemia.