{"id":501,"date":"2022-06-07T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2022-06-07T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:07:56","slug":"parasite-mosquito","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/parasite-mosquito\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasite &#038; Mosquito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s called <em>Plasmodium <\/em>and there are 5 species that can affect humans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Plasmodium falciparum&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Plasmodium vivax<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Plasmodium malariae&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Plasmodium ovale&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Plasmodium Knowlesi&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figure 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 Photographs (or illustrations) of the 5 species of <em>Plasmodium<\/em> seen under microscope&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one that causes the disease more often in Africa is <em>Plasmodium falciparum:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>a mutant pathogen\u00a0<\/li><li>it can be resistant to anti-malaria treatments\u00a0<\/li><li>it can cause mild symptoms, very severe symptoms and it can even cause death\u00a0<\/li><li>it produces infectious spores\u00a0<\/li><li>it has a complex <strong>cycle of life<\/strong> with several invasive phases, infecting the person\u2019s liver cells, getting inside the host\u2019s blood cells and infecting the mosquito\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mosquito<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s called <em>Anopheles <\/em>and there are several species that transmit malaria in different regions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figure 14 Photograph or illustration of the <em>Anopheles gambiae<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Africa, the predominant species that transmit <em>P. falciparum<\/em> mosquito is <em>Anopheles gambiae<\/em>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>what do they eat? \u2013 the female feeds on blood, to obtain proteins and make between 50 to 200 eggs that they lay in the water&nbsp;<\/li><li>cycle of life &#8211; 3 aquatic phases, eggs, larvae and pupae, that last up to 2 weeks and 1 adult phase, in which they become malaria vectors and live between 2 to 4 weeks<\/li><li>how are they? \u2013 they have head to detect and feed themselves, thorax to move and abdomen for digestion &nbsp;<\/li><li>how can they be distinguished from other mosquitos? &#8211;&nbsp; for their rest position with the abdomen up to make digestion and later bite&nbsp;<\/li><li>how they become infected? biting people of the community that are sick with malaria &nbsp;<\/li><li>where do they live? in breeding grounds in lakes, rivers, swamps, puddles, agriculture ditches, irrigation channels, paddle footprints, buckets of water, stagnant waters, garbage from inside and outside the houses, wells&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/li><li>when do they bite? between sunset and dusk&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figure 15 photograph of the mosquito in digestion position&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s called Plasmodium and there are 5 species that can affect humans: Plasmodium falciparum&nbsp; Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium malariae&nbsp; Plasmodium ovale&nbsp; Plasmodium Knowlesi&nbsp; Figure 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 Photographs (or illustrations) of the 5 species of Plasmodium seen under microscope&nbsp; The one that causes the disease more often in Africa is Plasmodium falciparum: a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionmalaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}