Friday, December 7, 2007

APES Infectious Diseases (protozoan) - Shope

PROTOZOAN



o malaria
• spread via mosquitoes
• living creature
• produces spores
• spores attach to liver
• destroys red blood cells
• not lethal for healthy person
• major killer for little children, babies
• about 110 kids/babies die each hour from malaria

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