Multiple Choice Questions on Malaria

1. Malaria is caused by

a) Entamoeba histolytica

b) Leishmania

c) Clostridium

d) Plasmodium

 2. The germ Plasmodium was discovered by

a) Sir Ronald Ross

b) Golgi

c) Charles Laveran

d) Patric Manson

3. The sexual cycle of Plasmodium is completed in

a) The gut of mosquito

b) RBC

c) Liver tissue

d)The salivary gland of the mosquito

 4. The most common of the human infecting malarial parasite is

a) Plasmodium ovale

b) Plasmodium vivax

c) Plasmodium falciparum

d) Plasmodium malariae

 5. Malarial parasite is best obtained from a patient

a) an hour after rise of temperature

b) while temperature is rising sharply

c) after 24 hours when temperature is normal

d) after temperature becomes normal

6. Who is the primary host of malarial parasite?

a) Man

b) Rat

c) Anopheles

d) None of the above

7. Which of the following is not a synthetic drug to cure malaria?

a) Quinine

b) Paludrin

c) Pamaquine

d) Plasmochin

8. Vaccination in malaria has not been successful because

a) Plasmodium produces antitoxins

b) Plasmodium produces minute bodies

c) it does not produce antibodies and antitoxins

d) None of the above

9. Quartan malaria is caused by

a) Plasmodium vivax

b) Plasmodium ovale

c) Plasmodium malariae

d) Plasmodium falciparum

10. Malignant tertian malaria is caused by

a) Plasmodium vivax

b) Plasmodium ovale

c) Plasmodium malariae

d) Plasmodium falciparum

Answers:

1. d) Plasmodium

2. c) Charles Laveran

3. a) The gut of mosquito

4. b) Plasmodium vivax

5. b) while temperature is rising sharply

6. a) Man

7. a) Quinine

8. c) it does not produce antibodies and antitoxins

9. c) Plasmodium malariae

10. d) Plasmodium falciparum