HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Chloroquine, Globin, Hemoglobin
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Malaria is a fever plague, and it has been said that this disease has killed more than half the people who have. Chapter 7: malaria, another fever plague ever lived on this planet. Symptoms: typically enlarged spleens, periodic fevers, headaches, chills, and fever. Malaria came to europe from africa via the nile river. Hippocrates discussed two types of malaria: one with recurrent fevers every third day (benign tertian, one with recurrent fevers every fourth day (quartan) The disease was so prevalent in the marshland in the roman republic it was called the roman fever . Charles louis alphonse laveran found within the red blood cells transparent globules containing brown-black malaria pigment and, mobile filaments emerging from clear spherical bodies called exflagellation. Anopheles is a brown mosquito which is the carrier for malaria. The causative agent for malaria is bacillus malariae. Within the liver cells, the parasite multiples asexually to produce 10,000 or more infective offspring, and they invade the erythrocytes.