Plasmodium

Paramecium is a single-celled protist from the Alveolate clade. They live in wet environments like lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, and puddles. The wet environment can even be inside of animal bodies and in moist soil. Paramecium are heterotrophs, meaning they eat other living or non-living things. They eat by trapping food inside of their oral grooves, which are basically mouths. They use cilia on their body to not only move, but also help capture their prey. When the food gets into the oral…

Of these 200, four of them are capable of infecting humans, and two in particular are responsible for over 95% of malaria cases. Plasmodium Vivax and Plasmodium Falciparum are the two most common forms of the infectious disease. This organism has a peculiar life cycle, because half of it is spent in the hosts bloodstream. Once they have lived within the hosts body for some time, they then attach…

Five out of the various kinds of Plasmodium parasite are known to cause malaria in humans; the most common and deadly is the Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria is classified into uncomplicated malaria and severe malaria based on the severity of the disease symptoms which include fever, vomiting, nausea, headaches, general body weakness,…

invade the RBCs and reproduce inside RBC, RBCs then ruptures freeing cells to infect more RBCs, during this time symptoms of malaria occur: chills, fever, sweating, due to the splitting and release of toxins. There are five stages of Plasmodium that infects humans, Plasmodium falciparum being the most serious, the cells with parasites develop knobs on surface, then becomes sticky and stick to…

They are more that hundreds of diseases today but back then they were only a few .When a new diseases came it was difficult for people to cure it that made it easier for people to die .Around 1491 there were few disease in the new world.Then it all change when the Columbian Exchange began.It was a time for exploration and exchange form the new world to the old world.Yet it also became an exchange of diseases like smallpox,measles and malaria.Malaria is a diseases that is trasmitted by an…

Objective: In-silico assessment analysis of Protein database entries of the Pf. lactate dehydrogenase (PfLDH) enzyme, considered as an important target for designing of anti-malarial drugs. Methods: PDB structures of the enzyme Pf. lactate dehydrogenase were downloaded from Protein Data Bank. These were subjected to ANOLEA energy assessment analysis and Swiss model was used to analyse Ramachandran plot. Results: The energy assessment analysis and analysis of Ramachandran plot were carried out…

The title of the lab: Microorganisms and Humans – Infectious Disease Lab Resource The aim of the lab: The aim of the lab was to see if student could detect streptococci causing bacteria in the back of their throats and other objective was to view pathogen causing diseases under the microscope. Activity 1 – Identification of Human Streptococcal Pathogens Materials 1. Glass microscope slides 2. Bunsen burner 3. Inoculating loop 4. Sharpie pen 5. 2 bacitracin discs 6. Sterile saline tubes 7.…

tropical forest region of Malange, close to the Democratic Republic of Congo border. He returned to Portugal to visit friends and relatives and after five days he experienced high fever, asthenia, dizziness and myalgia. He was diagnosed with Plasmodium falciparum malaria with 8% parasitemia (with no severity criteria according to the WHO guidelines 1). He was successfully treated with endovenous quinine-doxycycline.…

The Malaria Project encompasses the wild west period of medicine. In the nineteenth century, so many aspects of medicine were purely experimental. From surgery, to pharmaceuticals, and especially psychology which was still developing at that time, a trial and error basis of treatment was prescribed. High risk methods were employed to conditions that were not well understood resulting in low success rates. As medicine advanced in to the twentieth century, more efficient and efficacious means of…

could be found. Ebola tends to just go away for years at a time, which is what makes it a difficult virus to track. On down the road, there would become five species of ebolavirus: Zaire virus, Sudan virus, Reston virus, Taï Forest virus, and Bundibugyo virus. Bundibugyo virus emerged in 2007 and a reservoir host still has not been found. Gorillas have been found to have antibodies, but hat doesn’t mean they are the reservoirs. Malaria was first believed to no be zoonotic because “the four…