What is autochthonous malaria?
Autochthonous: Regarding malaria, it refers to local transmission by mosquitoes.  This can either be indigenous (a geographic area where malaria occurs regularly) or introduced (in a geographic area where malaria does not occur regularly).
What is the difference between Tertian and Quartan malaria?
Each of the four types of malarial parasite cause a characterisitic periodicity of fever. This has led to the description of malaria as being either tertian, where fever occurs every third day i.e. day 1,3,5 etc. or quartan where fever occurs every fourth day ie on day 1,4,7 etc.
What is exo erythrocytic phase?
[ ĕk′sō-ĭ-rĭth′rə-sĭt′ĭk ] n. The developmental stage of the malaria parasite in liver parenchyma cells of the vertebrate host before the red blood cells become infected.
How is recrudescence different from relapse?
Meanwhile, relapse are those who presented with melioidosis symptoms due to failure to clear the infection in the bloodstream after completion of eradication therapy. On the other hand, recrudescence are the recurrence of melioidosis symptoms during the eradication therapy.
Why is malaria mostly in Africa?
Malaria occurs mostly in poor, tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Africa is the most affected due to a combination of factors: A very efficient mosquito (Anopheles gambiae complex) is responsible for high transmission.
Why is it called quartan malaria?
Quartan fever is a form of malaria where an onset of fever occurs in an interval of three to four days, hence the name “quartan”. It is transmitted by bites of infected female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles.
What country did malaria originate from?
The malaria parasites of humans are thought to have evolved in tropical Africa from 2.5 million to 30 million years ago (P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae are among the oldest of the group).
