What pathogeon causes malaria?

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Alex
Mar 2, 2018

Plasmodium

Explanation:

It is caused by protozoan parasites. Malaria parasites are transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes. It depends on malaria you want to know the full name of the pathogen, but there is a chart on Wikipedia that actually is pretty good. But for the plain word malaria, it is just Plasmodium.

Jane
Mar 2, 2018

Malaria is caused by a pathogen known as Plasmodium ,which belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa,they bear an apical complex which helps in the interaction with glycophorin receptor of #RBCs# which is important to start Erythrocytic cycle.

According to the types of malaria,pathogenic species are,

1 .QUARTAN MALARIA : Plasmodium malariae

2 .TERTIAN MALARIA : BENIGN Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium ovale

MALIGNANT Plasmodium
falciparum

3 .QUOTIDIAN MALARIA Plasmodium knowlesi

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