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7.Human Health and Disease
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Where will you look for the sporozoites of the malarial parasite?
A
Saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito
B
Red blood corpuscles of human suffering from malaria
C
Spleen of infected humans
D
Salivary glands of freshy moulted female Anopheles mosquito
(AIPMT-2011)
Solution
(a) : Sporozoites represent the infective forms of malarial parasite. A healthy person acquires infection, when a female Anopheles mosquito, containing sporozoites, bites the person for sucking his blood. The mosquito punctures the host’s skin by its proboscis and first introduces some saliva into the blood stream. Along with saliva, thousands of sporozoites are inoculated in the host also.
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