Malaria

What is the definitive host for malaria parasite?

• Macaques

• Mosquito

• Human

• Female Anopheline mosquito

The first site that sporozoites will go when entering human

• blood

• liver

• lung

• intestine

In the extraerythrocytic cycle, the relapse can be occured in selected plasmodium spp.

• Plasmodium falciparum

• Plasmodium ovale

• Plasmodium knowlesi

• Plasmodium malariae

What is the infective form of Plasmodium spp.?

• Sporozoite

• Ring form

• Trophozoite

• Merozoite

Which of the Plasmodium spp. has a long duration in its erythrocytic cycle?

• Plasmodium knowlesi

• Plasmodium malariae

• Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium ovale

What kind of special characteristics that protect human from getting malaria?

• Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia (TPE)

• Person without microcytic anaemia

• Person with Glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)

• Person with thalassemia

What is the difference between relapse and recrudenscence?

• Recrudescence occurs due to declining of immune system

• Relapse occurs when malaria parasite rapidly progress in the blood

• Recrudescence is the reactivation of dormant stage

• Relapse is the new malaria attack when the persistent of parasite in the blood occurs

The complication of malaria include

• Hydocephaly

• Tropical splenomegaly

• Chyluria

• Encephalitis

The prevention and control of malaria

• Avoid using the chemoprophylaxis

• Using a bed net

• Using a window screen

• Using wolbachia