{"id":72630,"date":"2020-12-14T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=72630"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T05:43:52","slug":"plasmodium-ovale-and-other-types-of-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plasmodium-ovale-and-other-types-of-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasmodium ovale and other types of malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-plasmodium-ovale-other-types-of-malaria-7101500\/\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0A not very common type of malaria, Plasmodium ovale has been identified in a jawan in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Malaria:\u00a0<\/strong>It is caused by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito, if the mosquito itself is infected with a malarial parasite.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Types:\u00a0<\/strong>There are five kinds of malarial parasites \u2014 Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax (the commonest ones), Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium knowlesi.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Is P Ovale different from other Parasites?\u00a0<\/strong>P ovale is very similar to P vivax and the treatment modality is the same as it is for a person infected with P vivax.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prevalence of P Ovale:\u00a0<\/strong>P ovale malaria is endemic to tropical Western Africa.It is relatively unusual outside of Africa and where found, comprises less than 1% of the isolates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Which Malarial Parasite is prevalent in India?\u00a0<\/strong>In India, out of 1.57 lakh malaria cases in the high-burden states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya and Madhya Pradesh in 2019, 1.1 lakh cases(70%) were cases of falciparum malaria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>According to the World Malaria Report 2020, cases of Malaria in India dropped from about 20 million in 2000 to about 5.6 million in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0Click here News:\u00a0A not very common type of malaria, Plasmodium ovale has been identified in a jawan in Kerala. Facts: Malaria:\u00a0It is caused by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito, if the mosquito itself is infected with a malarial parasite. Types:\u00a0There are five kinds of malarial parasites \u2014 Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax (the commonest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plasmodium-ovale-and-other-types-of-malaria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plasmodium ovale and other types of malaria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-72630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704730798},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}