Choose one microscopic species that causes a human illness. Give the scientific name of the species, the disease it causes, and the vector, and then describe the symptoms in a 130 word paragraph or two.

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Humberto Lucas

15 July, 13:01

Choose one microscopic species that causes a human illness. Give the scientific name of the species, the disease it causes, and the vector, and then describe the symptoms in a 130 word paragraph or two.

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Marisol Bowers · Answer 1

The disease is a condition which results in the disorder of a function or structure in living organisms and it is not because of external injury. Pathology is the study of a disease. Some illness in the human body like malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease.

It affects other animals and humans and it is caused by parasitic protozoans. It is a bacteria which is a Plasmodium type. Plasmodium is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes and they are obligate parasites of insects and vertebrates.

Their lifecycle involves the development of a blood-feeding insect. Plasmodium is a member of phylum called Apicomplexan and in the family of Plasmodiidae. Species of Plasmodium are Anopheles and Culex. The classic symptoms of malaria are paroxysm but other infections include retinal damage, convulsion, joint pain, fever, and shivering.