Question

The causative agent for malaria is a type of? a. rickettsial agent. b. protozoa. c. bacterium. d. prion. e. virus.

Answer 1

b. protozoa

One of the four species of protozoan in the genus Plasmodium is responsible for the acute or subacute infectious disease known as malaria.

A virus or a bacteria causes malaria?

• A virus or bacteria cannot cause malaria.
• Plasmodium, a parasite that often spreads through infected mosquitoes, is what causes malaria.
• A mosquito consumes Plasmodia that are present in blood when it feeds on an infected human.

How do protozoa cause malaria?

• The female anopheles mosquito bite is the primary method of transmission of malaria, a protozoan infection of the red blood cells.
• The Plasmodium genus of protozoa is what causes malaria.
• Four different types of malaria parasites can infect people: Plasmodium malariae, vivax, ovale, and falciparum

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