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Biology Question on human health and disease

Cereberal malaria is caused by

A

Plasmodium ovale

B

Plasmodium vivax

C

Plasmodium falciparum

D

Plasmodium malariae

Answer

Plasmodium falciparum

Explanation

Solution

Plasmodium falciparum is the greatest killer of human beings over most parts of Africa and else where in tropics. It causes malignant (or pernicious or cerebral or tropical) tertian malaria. This malaria is most harmful. Plasmodium vivax causes benign tertian malaria. Plasmodium malariae causes quartan malaria. Plasmodium ovale is the rarest of the four species which infect man and it causes mild tertian malaria.