Treatment and Prevention
The primary way malaria is diagnosed.
a. urine sample b. blood test
special blood test.
These are the organs compromised by malaria.
a. heart b. spleen
lungs, brain, kidney, and spleen.
This is how one contracts malaria.
a. mosquito bite b. venom
What is malaria is spread primarily by the female Anopheles mosquito bite.
This is the number of malarial cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year.
a. 100 b.1,500
What is 1,500.
The first cells infected from the malarial parasite.
a. liver cells b. kidney cells
liver cells.
Malaria can only be transmitted from person to person this way.
a. transmission of fluid b. transmission of blood
What is malaria is not contagious unless if it involves transmission of blood.
Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, and P. ovale, and P. malariae are all parasites known to affect humans.
a. four stages of malaria b. four kinds of malaria parasites
What are 4 kinds of malaria parasites.
This is the final outcome of untreated malaria.
a. brain dead b. death
death.
The pathogen of malaria is....
a.eukaryotic b.prokaryotic
eukaryotic.
Name one type of antimalarial drug, and its mode of action.
a. Penicillin b. Chloroquine
What is Chloroquine, poisons the pathogen by increasing toxicity and interferes with biosynthesis of nucleic acids. What is Mefloquine, poisons pathogen by increasing toxicity and interferes with biosynthesis of nucleic acids. What is Primaquine, blocks oxidative metabolism. What is doxycycline, inhibits protein synthesis.
You'll find this parasite in an infected person's, what.
a. red blood cells b. white blood cells
red blood cells.
The order of the hierarchy is.....
a.Cells, Organs,Tissues,Organism, Organ System
b.Cells,Tissues,Organs,Organ System, Organism
b.Cells,Tissues,Organs,Organ System, Organism.
Side effects of using Methloquine medications.
a. nausea b, nightmares
What is dizziness, loss of balance, ringing of the ears, hallucinations, depression &, nightmares.
The vector of malaria.
a. fly b. mosquito
mosquito.
The process in which an organism functions/ keeps balance in your body is...
a.Homeostasis
b. Cellular Respiration
Homeostasis.