Discoveries on malaria
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran first discovered malaria parasites in a patient's blood in 1880. In 1886, Camillo Golgi established that there were two forms of malaria, one with tertian periodicity and one with quartan periodicity. Giovanni Batista Grassi and Raimondo Filetti first introduced the names Plasmodium vivax and P. malariae for the human malaria parasites in 1890 and 1897. Ronald Ross demonstrated in 1897-1898 that malaria parasites could be transmitted from infected patients to mosquitoes. A team led by Giovanni Batista Grassi then discovered the transmission of the human malaria parasites Plasmodium from mosquitoes to humans in 1898-1899.
Discoveries on malaria
- 2. DISCOVERY OF THE MALARIA PARASITE (1880) Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ----first to notice parasites in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria.
- 3. DIFFERENTIATION OF SPECIES OF MALARIA(1886) Camillo Golgi ----established that there were at least two forms of the disease, one with tertian periodicity and one with quartan periodicity.
- 4. NAMING OF HUMAN MALARIA PARASITES (1890,1897) Giovanni Batista Grassi and Raimondo Filetti ---- first introduced the names Plasmodium vivax and P. malariae ----Laveran-Oscillaria malariae ----William Welch-P. falciparum
- 5. DISCOVERY THAT MOSQUITOES TRANSMIT MALARIA PARASITES (1897- 1898) Ronald Ross ----was the first to demonstrate that malaria parasites could be transmitted from infected patients to mosquitoes.
- 6. DISCOVERY OF THE TRANSMISSION OF THE HUMAN MALARIA PARASITES Plasmodium(1898-1899) Led by Giovanni Batista Grassi, a team of Italian investigators, which included Amico Bignami and Giuseppe Bastianelli