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Plamodium vivax is a unicellular eukaryote. It is a heterotrophic organism that attacks red blood cells. This organism is asexual. The Plamodium vivax lives in it's host's body and stays in the blood stream.
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∙ 9y agoPlasmodium is a human parasite, that causes malaria. Plasmodium establishes its complex life cycle in blood cells and liver cells. Mosquitos serve as a vector to spread the parasite from one person to other through biting.
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∙ 12y agoAnopheles mosquito .
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∙ 12y agoMostly mosquitos.
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∙ 11y agoMosquito
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Is plasmodium vivax a sporozoan?
Plasmodium vivax, the protist that causes Malaria, is a sprozoan, which is a type of protist that doesn't move on its own, is parasitic by penetrating then living inside of its host, and it can have more than one host at a time.
Who discovered the name of plasmodium?
Grassi discovered the name plasmodium.
What species of the Plasmodium species has band forms?
Plasmodium malariae
What is the common name of plasmodium?
Plasmodium is a sporozoan that causes Malaria.
Is plasmodium vivax is eukaryotic or prokaryotic?
A eukaryote as Plasmodium is a protist.
What is the host of malaria?
Mosquitoes belonging to the Genus Anopheles.Reptile Aves and Mammals are primary host of plasmodium
Is plasmodium vivax a sporozoan?
Plasmodium vivax, the protist that causes Malaria, is a sprozoan, which is a type of protist that doesn't move on its own, is parasitic by penetrating then living inside of its host, and it can have more than one host at a time.
Give example of intermediate host for malaria?
Mosquitoes belonging to the Genus Anopheles.Reptile Aves and Mammals are primary host of plasmodium
What are the hosts of the trematoda?
Intermediate host - snail definitive host - cattle/sheep
A definitive host harbors which stage of a parasite?
adult
What kind of bacteria-like organisms can live only in a host?
Endoparasites: Live inside the host eg. Plasmodium, Tapeworm, Roundworms, Bot fly ect.
What diseases does plasmodium cause?
Plasmodium causes an infection known as malaria, which is common in parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Plasmodium always has two host in its life cycle, the mosquito vector and the veretbrate host. Now Malaria can actually lead to cancer, but this is with the combination of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) that it leads to a type of cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma which occurs in children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The malaria causing protists plasmodium infects cells of the?
The cells of the host's liver, spleen and the erythrocytes in the blood (where they reproduce).
Types of maleria?
There are five types of malaria. The types are plasmodium vivax, plasmodium malariae, plasmodium ovale, plasmodium falciparum, and plasmodium knowlesi.
What are the four species of plasmodium that cause malaria?
You have four species of Plasmodium which causes malaria in humans. They are Plasmodium vivax, P. falciparum, P. ovale and P. malariae.
What is different between intermediate host and resiver host?
An intermediate host is an animal that is needed for a parasite to develop through one or more stages of life before being transferred to a definitive host in which the parasite will develop into sexual maturity. A reservoir host is a host that may be an intermediate or definitive host but provides a place where a parasite may "hang out" while enviromental conditions are less than optimal.
What are the four different kinds of parasites thar cause malaria?
Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae.
