APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal infection spread via the Anopheles mosquito.

Detailed explanation-2: -vivax has long been known as ‘benign tertian malaria’, that dogma of harmlessness has been revealed as fallacious. 2, 5 Among patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of vivax malaria, about 10–20% will be classified as having severe illness, and 5%–15% of those will not survive.

Detailed explanation-3: -The malaria parasites enter that person’s bloodstream and travel to the liver. When the parasites mature, they leave the liver and infect red blood cells. Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite of the genus plasmodium. The parasite is transmitted to humans most commonly through mosquito bites.

Detailed explanation-4: -Malaria is transmitted to humans by female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Female mosquitoes take blood meals for egg production, and these blood meals are the link between the human and the mosquito hosts in the parasite life cycle.

Detailed explanation-5: -Transmission mode All four human Plasmodium species are transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. About 60–100 anopheline species are able to transmit malaria in the world. Infected humans remain infectious to mosquitoes as long as they carry mature gametocyte forms of plasmodium.