In malaria definitive host is: (A) Male anopheles mosquito, (B) Sand fly, (C) TSE TSE fly, (D) Female anopheles mosquito
Answer is D. Definitive host: Female Anopheles mosquitoes (not male anopheles) Intermediate host: Man. Infective form to man: Sporozoites presesnt in the salivary gland of mosquito Infective form to man when transmitted by blood transfusion or veical modetrophozoite Infective form to mosquito- Gametocyte Sand fly-cause leshmaniasis TSE TSE fly-cause sleeping sickness