MEDICINE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -High-level pyrimethamine resistance results from the accumulation of mutations in the dhfr domain of pfdhfr-ts, principally at codons 108, 59 and 51, where the most common allelic variants encode S108N, N51I and C59R.
Detailed explanation-3: -The malaria epidemic of 79 AD devastated the fertile, marshy croplands surrounding the city, causing local farmers to abandon their fields and villages.
Detailed explanation-4: -From mother to unborn child. Through blood transfusions. By sharing needles used to inject drugs. 09-Feb-2023