When more than one species of Plasmodium infect a person, it is called as

Quartan malaria

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Tertian malaria

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Aestivo-autumnal malaria

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Quotidian malaria

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Solution

The correct option is B Quotidian malaria
For Malaria, Plasmodium is the infecting organism and Anopheles is the vector. The special condition when more than one species of Plasmodium infect the same host is called quotidian malaria. It is caused by the asexual erythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium in which associated fever alternate in 24 hours at the same frequency. For example, Plasmodium ovale.

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