SEXUAL CYCLE IN MOSQUITO

Sexual life –cycle of plasmodium is completed in the gut of female Anopheles mosquito resulting in the infective sporozoites the cycle comprises of the following threr stages

[1]; GSMETOGONY; THE GAMOCYTES are taken up along with the blood into the stomach of the mosquito the female gamocytes soon become macrogemete which is ready to be fertillzed each male gamocyte forms 6 to 8 sperm-like microgametes by a process of exfagellation

[2]; SYNGAMY; THE TWO GAMETES of the opposite sexes fuse together to from a zygote the process is called syngamy the zygote become worm –like ookinete it penetrates the stomach wall to settle down just under the midgut here after absorbing the nutrients it become rounded and encycts to form the oocyst

[3]; sporogony; in 6 to 7 days the nuclieus of the oocyst divides into thousands of slender sporozoltes by the process of sporogony the cyst bursts and the liberated sporozoltes migrate towoeds the salivary glands where they await transfer to a human host

SYMPTOMS OF MALARIA;;;

THE SYMPTOMS OF MALARIA FIRST APPEAR AFTER SEVERAL DAYS OF INFACTION IN MAN THE TIME TAKEN BY THE PARASITS BEFORE IT APPEARS IN THE BLOODS IS CALLED INCUBATION PERIOD THE SYMPTOMS THAT APPEAR IN THE PERIOD OF INFACTION INCLUDE NEUSEA LOSS of appetite constipation and insomnia soon headache mascualar pains aches in the joints develps followeds by chills

AT the onset of malarial fever the patient suffers from shaking chills and sweating the body temperature many rise as 106f/