I don't understand the emphasis made while using the name (Generic and common) for the same organism. It is confusing me to read Anopheles mosquito or Plasmodium parasite
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plasmodium it is blood parasite whic cause malaria disease while Anophelesis vector which transport the sporozoite of plasmodium to human or animals during blood meal
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That is a very good question. And your suggestion may be correct. I will believe its just a culture that science adopts sometimes in using some terminologies. But then, I will also think scientists will like to reach a greater audience. The experts will identify "Anopheles" and "lay-person" will recognize mosquito.
That said, the same goes for the phrase "clinical malaria". Malaria in itself is a clinical condition, why call it clinical malaria?
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Many organisms have common and scientific names, I think the different names come from different cultures were most common name come from local culture in some countries while most scientific names come from the Latin language or design according to the hosts, place of first discover ...etc
Could there be other types of mosquitoes that are not Anopheles or other types of Parasites that are not Plasmodium?. There lies the answer to my mind.The the usage could be for the purpose of emphasis so that no one would be left in doubt. Many of such abound just like Jerome talked about "Clinical malaria". Just my thought.
Very interesting question but as Jerome said it is for emphasis and for clarity. Wish you well
Hi. Mosquitoes is a common name that involves a lot of genus of "mosquitoes" like Anopheles sp., Aedes sp., Sabethes sp., etc. Best wishes.
I believe it is for understanding/clarity of the common man. A common person may not understand if one says Anopheles minimus or Anopheles darlingi that mosquitoes are being talked about ....However, one can easily understand that mosquitoes are being referred if one say Anophles mosquitoes......There is nothing wrong in that
As regards to the issue of "Clinical malaria" raised by Mr. Dinga ....I would say that no doubt malaria is a clinical entity..but generally clinically malaria is referred to a fever cases provisonally diagnosed as malaria based only on clinical symptoms (such as fever, headache, bodyache etc.) in the absence of parasitological confirmation....once presence of malaria parasite in the blood of person/fever case is demonstrated it is called a malaria case....I hope I am clear in explaining
Extending the answer of Anil Parekh, those malaria cases having presence of malaria parasite but not having fever and other symptoms are called sub clinical infection while those having symptoms but not confirmed by lab investigation are treated as clinical malaria cases. In many places diagnosis facility may not be available and in that case disease burden is measured in terms of "clinical malaria" and reported as such. However now a days all reported malaria cases have to be confirmed by laboratory investigation and so called confirmed malaria cases.
While using the word Anopheles. Mosquito basically the person is talking about mosquito and specify that of which type I.e. Anopheles, as there are other types such as Culex, Aedes which causes other diseases.
There are different types of mosquitoes, of which the common genera are Aedes, Culex and Anopheles. To the expert , needless using both generic and common names, but to the 'layman' the emphasis is to specify the type of mosquito you may be talking about, hence colloquially Anopheles mosquito may be used. Similarly, it is sufficient to use the word Plasmodium by the expert (Parasitologist) and to the 'layman' using Plasmodium parasite is colloquial.
Dr Prakash is correct. You can call it Anopheles but not mosquito as mosquito may refer to other mosquitoes and hence may be confusing. Anopheles mosquito is written for better clarity to common readership.
But malaria and clinical malaria appears to be same but are different as clinical malaria case may not have malaria parasite. This term is better used by clinicians at an early stage.
Mosquitoes are insects ; they are classified into many groups called genus such as Anopheles, Culex, Aedes, Mansonia etc. Anopheles mosquitoes means mosquitoes that belong to the genus Anopheles
As the other answer points out, there is nothing technically wrong here, it's just redundant. However, in most sitautions your audience will be split between non-specialists (who don't know what Anopheles means) and specialists (to whom Anopheles conveys valuable additional information beyond what you get from 'mosquito'). If you want your presentations, papers, etc to be accessible and useful to the widest possible audience there is an advantage to using both plain English and scientific names.
In some endemic areas, most cases of malaria are (because of semi-immunity) not clinical, but subclinical (asymptomatic), despite the fact that plasmodial parasites can be found in their blood, e.g. by PCR techniques. I have in mind some recent findings concerning Plasmodium vivax in particular. People who are indisposed are in the minority. Thus, it makes perfect sense to refer to "clinical malaria" when someone is obviously ill. In this sort of context, "malaria" is insufficiently specific.
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