Short Quiz Malaria and Babesia

Malaria and Babesia

GROUP 5

Multiple Choice

A protozoal and parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of the mosquito Anopheles.

• Malaria

• Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium falciparum

• Babesia

• ​Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite of the genus plasmodium​

• The parasite is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes.

• ​Anopheles is a genus of mosquito

Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite

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Multiple Choice

Species of Plasmodium that infect humans.

• Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium malariae

• Plasmodium ovale

• All of the above

• Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen.

• ​Plasmodium ovale is a species of parasitic protozoa that causes tertian malaria in humans.

• ​Plasmodium falciparum a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.

• ​​Plasmodium malariaeis Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans.

Multiple Choice

What is the most common and deadly form of malaria?

• Plasmodium ovale

• Plasmodium malariae

• Plasmodium falciparum

• Plasmodium vivax

Plasmodium falciparum is the most deadly of the human malaria parasites. The particular virulence of this species derives from its ability to subvert the physiology of its host during the blood stages of its development.

​Plasmodium falciparum

Multiple Choice

Which are the two most common malariae?

• Plasmodium Falciparum

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  Plasmodium ovale

• Plasmoduim ovale

  and

  Plasmodium malariae

• Plasmodium malariae

  and

  Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium vivax and

  Plasmodium falciparum

• Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax is capable of undergoing sporogonic development

• It has been estimated that 2.5 billion people are at risk of infection with this organism.​

Most Common ​Plasmodium

Multiple Choice

First stage of Malaria life cycle.

• infected female Anopheles mosquito passes sporozoites of the malaria parasite Plasmodium into the victim's bloodstrim

• Gametocytes develop into gametes in mosquito's body

• Sporozoites infect liver cells and become merozoites

• Merozoites develop into gametocyte

Multiple Choice

What cells do Babesia infect? Red Blood Cells

• Red Blood Cells

• Neutrophils

• White Blood cells

• Platelets

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Multiple Choice

What is the vector of Babesia?

• cow

• mosquito

• human

• "Ixodes" tick

Multiple Choice

 

Causes of malignant tertian malaria.

• Plasmodium falciparum

• Plasmodium malariae

• Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium ovale

Multiple Choice

Causes of malignant tertian malaria.

• Plasmodium falciparum

• Plasmodium malariae

• Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium ovale

Multiple Choice

 

Parasitized red cells are enlarged and contain Schuffner's dots?

• Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium ovale

• Plasmodium malariae

• Plasmodium vivax

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GROUP MEMBERS:

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​ Auviry Amoroso Angel Silva Belonio

Prince Edaño Danna Daziel Faderon

Guian Jay Pascual Louise Mairile Tana

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