Sporozoa: Plasmodium and Babesia Species Quiz

What is the interval from sporozoite injection to the detection of parasites in the blood called?

What is the time between sporozoite injection and the appearance of clinical symptoms called?

Which of these is the final host for the malaria parasite?

Which stage of the malaria parasite life cycle involves schizogony in the liver?

What is the name of the cycle where merozoites invade and multiply within red blood cells?

What is the name of the infective stage that is transmitted from the mosquito to humans?

Which Plasmodium species is known to cause the most severe form of malaria?

What is the name of the asexual reproductive process that occurs in the human host during a malaria infection?

Which Babesia species is known to infect humans?

What is the name of the infective stage of the Plasmodium parasite that is injected into the human host by the mosquito vector?

During which stage of the Plasmodium life cycle do the parasites reproduce asexually within the red blood cells of the human host?

What is the name of the dormant form of the Plasmodium parasite that can remain in the liver cells of the human host?

Which stage of the Plasmodium life cycle infects the liver cells?

What is the first form seen in the erythrocytic cycle?

Which Plasmodium species is characterized by the presence of double ring forms?

What is the term used for the dormant stage that can reside in the liver?

Which stage of the Plasmodium life cycle is characterized by the rupture of red blood cells, releasing merozoites?

What is the term used for the sexual cycle of Plasmodium that occurs in the mosquito?