HLTB21H3 Chapter : Malaria (Chart-form with labels as indicated in the review)
Document Summary
Malaria: etiology (3), transmission (2), treatment, epidemiology and immunity. Natural resistance to malaria include people who have sickle cell anemia (due to frequencies in the blood) Duffy factor (based on the rhesus antigen in the blood) are immune to vivrax malaria. Acquired immunity is developed through repeat exposure and survival of several attacks of malaria. Through the bite of an infected anopheles (female mosquitos) Factors necessary for the transmission of the mosquito vector include: the incidence of infections in the human population, the suitability of the local anopheline population. Density, breeding and biting habits, the availability of susceptible or nonimmune hosts, climatic conditions, and the local geographic and hydro-geographic conditions. Infected blood by blood transfusion or through contaminated needles are less common ways. First drug peruvian tree of cinchona bark. Treatment depends on several factors: the species, severity of infection, patter of drug resistance, accompanying illness of condition, and pregnancy.
