HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes -Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Plasmodium Vivax, Plasmodium Falciparum
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Killed more than half of the ppl that have ever lived on this planet. 300-500 million cases, with only 10% of them occurring outside of africa. Hippocrates discussed 2 kinds of malaria: one with recurrent fevers every 3 days (benign tertian, one with recurrent fevers every 4 days (quartan) Roman fever was a case of malaria. Believed to be the result of bad air emitted from marshes. Laveran viewed malaria patient"s blood under microscope: noticed that mobile filaments emerged from clear spherical bodies in red blood cells (process called exflagellation) Ross dissected numerous mosquitoes to find the cause of malaria: dissected the wrong type of mosquito for many years, and eventually dissected the. Anopheles: discovered the route of parasite in birds, and presumed the route was similar in humans. Grassi later determined that the route was indeed similar in humans, supporting ross"s theory. 4 species of plasmodium that affect humans: p. falciparum, p. vivax, p. ovale, p. malariae.
