This illness is caused by the destruction of red blood cells by the sporozoite form of a parasite of genus Plasmodium.
Drugs like mefloquine (ME-flo-kwine) and doxycyclin (DOCKZ-ee-SY-klin) are used prophylactically (PRO-fill-ACT-ic-al-ee) to prevent this disease, which was first treated in the nineteenth century with drugs extracted from cinchona. Resistance to this illness is observed in carriers of another sickle cell anemia. This illness is caused by the destruction of red blood cells by the sporozoite form of a parasite of genus Plasmodium. For 10 points, name this disease that is transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito and treated with quinine.
Drugs like mefloquine (ME-flo-kwine) and doxycyclin (DOCKZ-ee-SY-klin) are used prophylactically (PRO-fill-ACT-ic-al-ee) to prevent this disease, which was first treated in the nineteenth century with drugs extracted from cinchona.
malaria