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MALARIA
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1. Mal-aria (Bad air) till 1880
2. Tropical disease due to presence of sporozoa of
plasmodium
3. Transmitted to humans by the infected female
mosquito Anopheles
4. Malarial parasite is a single cell protozoa called
Plasmodium.
5. 300-500 millions cases of malaria detected out of
which 1.5-2.7 million death every year
6. Nine major species of anopheline mosquitoes
transmit malaria in India. In urban areas, malaria is
mainly transmitted by Anopheles stephensi
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• Malaria is caused by four species of protozoa
Plasmodium malariae.
P. falciparum. (more lethal)
P. vivax.
P. ovale (rare).
• The plasmodium transmitted to human by the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito.
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• NMEP (National Malaria Eradication Program) in India
1958.
• Nearly complete eradication in due to
powerful insecticides.
• In 1970’s due to emergent of drug and
insecticides resistant all attempts failed.
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Life Cycle of Malarial Parasite
• Complex Sexual (in female mosquito) and asexual
Life cycle (in humans).
• Sexual Life Cycle: Fertilization takes place in
mosquito gut and Oocysts liberates matured
sporozoites which migrates and stay in
insects salivary glands.
• Asexual Life Cycle: These sporozoites then
passed to blood of another human to begin
asexual cycle
• NO AVAILABLE DRUGS ARE LETHAL TO
SPOROZOITES
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Zygote
Oocysts
Sporozoites
Sporozoites
Schizonts
Merozoites
Pre-erythrocyitc
state
Exo--
erythrocyitc
state
Merozoites
TropozoitesSchizogony
Asexual
Erythrocytic
stage
Blood
Schizonts
MerozoitesPyrogen + TNF-α+
Haem
Tropozoites
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Sporozoites hardly survived in blood hence get sheltered in Liver parenchymal cell
In Liver it divide and developed into multinucleated SCHIZONTS. Hosts are asymptomatic
(PRE-ERHTHROCYTIC STATE)
In Liver, Schizonts gets matured in 8-21 days to form mononucleated MEROZOITES liberated from liver and
released in blood stream
If the species is P.vivax / P.ovale,
some merozoites re-enters liver
cell and form dormant
HYPNOZOITES (Sleeping form, which may lasts for several month and
may get relapse)
If the species is P.
falciparum, merozoites bind
to erythrocytes and forms
TROPHOZOITES
EXO OR PARA
ERYTHROCYTIC
STATE
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•The malaria parasite life cycle involves 2 hosts. During a blood meal, a malaria-
infected female Anopheles mosquito inoculates sporozoites into the human host.
Sporozoites infect liver cells.
There, the sporozoites mature into schizonts.
The schizonts rupture and release merozoites. This initial replication in the liver is
called the exoerythrocytic cycle.
Merozoites infect RBCs. There, the parasite multiplies asexually (called the
erythrocytic cycle). The merozoites develop into ring-stage trophozoites.
Some then mature into schizonts.
The schizonts rupture, releasing merozoites.
Some trophozoites differentiate into gametocytes.
During a blood meal, an Anopheles mosquito ingests the male (microgametocytes)
and female (macrogametocytes), gametocytes beginning the sporogonic cycle.
In the mosquito's stomach, the microgametes penetrate the macrogametes,
producing zygotes.
The zygotes become motile and elongated, developing into ookinetes.
The ookinetes invade the midgut wall of the mosquito where they develop
into oocysts.
The oocysts grow, rupture, and release sporozoites, which travel to the mosquito's
salivary glands. Inoculation of the sporozoites into a new human host perpetuates
the malaria life cycle.10
• During merozoite maturation in RBC, host’s
Hb is digested and transported to parasites
food vacuole and provides amino acids
• Free haem which may be toxic to parasite is
polymerised to haemozoin by parasitic haem
polymerase
• RBCs infected with merozoite, ruptures and
releases thousands of merozoites along with
pyrogens, TNF- α and polymerised haem to
show symptoms of Malaria
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• P. vivax causes BENIGN TERTIAN MALARIA
– Benign as it is rarely fatal
– Tertian as fever is on every 3rd day (48 h)
– Relapse may occur because dormant hypnozoites reside in
liver
• P. ovale infection has periodicity and relapse similar
to P. vivax but is milder and can be cured
• P. malariae causes QUARTAN MALARIA
– It has 72 h cycles
– No exo-erythrocytic stage but relapse may occur
• P. falciparum causes MALIGNANT TERTIAN MALARIA
– Malignant as it is severe form of malaria
– Tertian as fever occurs every after 3rd day
– Infected RBCs forms clusters called ROSETTES. Such
rosettes may block capillaries of vital organs causing renal
failure and encephalopathy (Cerebral Malaria)12
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Clinical presentation
• Early symptoms– Headache
– Malaise
– Fatigue
– Nausea
– Muscular pains
– Slight diarrhea
– Slight fever, usually not intermittent
• Could mistake for influenza or gastrointestinal infection
Clinical presentation
• Acute febrile illness, may have periodic febrileparoxysms every 48 – 72 hours with
• Afebrile asymptomatic intervals
• Tendency to recrudesce or relapse overmonths to years
• Anemia, thrombocytopenia, jaundice,hepatosplenomegaly, respiratory distresssyndrome, renal dysfunction, hypoglycemia,mental status changes, tropical splenomegalysyndrome
Drugs used to treat Malaria-First group
1. 4-aminoquinolones: Eg. Chloroquine, Amodiaquine
2. Chincona alkaloids: Quinine
3. Quinoline methanol: Mefloquine
4. Acridine: Mepacrine, Quinacrine
5. 8-aminoquinolines: Primaquine, Bulaquine
6. Biguanides: Porguanil
7. Diaminopyrimidines: Pyrimethamine
8. Artemisinin derivative: Artesunate,Artemether, Arteether
9. Phenanthrene methanol: Halofantrine, Lumefantrine
10. Naphthoquinone: Atovaquone
11. Antibiotics: TTC, Doxycycline, Clindamycin
12. Sulfonamides and Sulfones: Sulfadoxine and Dapsone
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CLOROQUINE• Available as Chloroquine Phosphate
• p.o./i.m./slow i.v. infusion
• very high volume of distribution
• Metabolised in liver
• Excreted in urine (70% unionized and 30% metabolized)
• T1/2 is 3-4 days
• Terminal T1/2 is 1-2 months
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MOA
• Chloroquine accumulates in parasitized erythrocytes
• Diffuse into parasite lysosomes
• Inhibit peptide formation and reduces supply of amino acid which is necessary for parasite viability
• Also inhibit parasite haem polymerase and thus protects host’s haem to get converted into haemozoin.
• At high concentration it also inhibit RNA and DNA synthesis
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