ACBS 457 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Plasmodium Ovale, Sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Route 58
1 Nov 2018
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Protozoan infection of human red blood cells. Malaria: plasmodium falciparum, plasmodium vivax, plasmodium malariae, plasmodium ovale. Importance of malaria: malaria affects more than 2,400 million people, over 40% of the world"s population, in more than 100 countries in the tropics from south america to the. & there is one malarial death every 12 sec. somewhere in the world: malaria kills in 1 year what aids killed in 15 years. In 15 years, if 5 million have died of aids, 50 million have died of malaria: malaria ranks 3rd among the major infectious diseases in causing deaths after pneumococcal acute respiratory infections & tuberculosis. It is expected that by the turn of the century malaria would be the number one infectious killer disease in the world: it accounts for 2. 6% of the total disease burden of the world. History of malaria: the term malaria (from the italian mala bad & aria air ) was used by the.
