APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Female Anopheles mosquitoes are the definitive hosts of Plasmodium parasites, the causative agents of malaria. Mosquitoes become infected when they ingest a blood meal from a human carrying Plasmodium gametocytes, the sexual-stage parasite cells responsible for malaria parasite transmission.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anopheles Mosquitoes. 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-3: -The primary host of malaria parasites is the Female Anopheles mosquito. It is also the vector or the transmitting agent. The protozoa, in an infectious form, is present in the salivary glands of the mosquito and when it bites the human target, the protozoa enters the body and reaches the liver through the bloodstream.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mosquitoes are the definitive hosts for the malaria parasites, wherein the sexual phase of the parasite’s life cycle occurs.

Detailed explanation-5: -How is malaria transmitted? Usually, people get malaria by being bitten by an infective female Anopheles mosquito. Only Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken from an infected person.