Pathophysiology of malaria
Human malaria is an acute and chronic protozoal disease caused by any one or a combination of four species of plasmodia - Plasmodia, vivex, falciparum, ovale & malariae.
P. falciparum cause malignant tertian malaria with high fatality rate. The other three species are 'benign' . Infections with P. ovale and P malariae are now rare.
All forms malaria are transmitted by female anopheles mosquito
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