Disease Diagnosis
Fever, chills, and rigors with a positive peripheral smear indicate this vector-borne disease.
What is malaria?
The vector for dengue and chikungunya is this species of mosquito.
What is Aedes aegypti?
This is the drug combination used to treat uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria.
What is ACT (Artemisinin Combination Therapy)?
NS1 antigen positivity in the first 5 days of illness suggests this disease.
What is dengue?
This mosquito bites mostly at night and transmits Japanese Encephalitis.
What is Culex tritaeniorhynchus?
This Plasmodium species is most common in India.
What is Plasmodium vivax?
A patient presents with elephantiasis of the leg. This disease is the likely cause.
What is lymphatic filariasis?
This biological control method uses a fish to eat mosquito larvae.
What is Gambusia fish?
This stage of Plasmodium is transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito.
What is the sporozoite stage?
Acute encephalitis syndrome in a child from a pig-rearing village points to this virus.
What is Japanese Encephalitis?
This mosquito breeds in overhead tanks
What is Anopheles mosquito?
This form of malaria relapse is due to hypnozoites in the liver.
What is vivax or ovale malaria?
This test confirms microfilaria in lymphatic filariasis and is best done at night.
What is a night blood smear?
This chemical is used for larvicidal treatment in overhead tanks.
What is Temephos/Abate?
This species causes cerebral malaria.
What is Plasmodium falciparum?