Uttarakhand PMT Uttarakhand PMT Solved Paper-2009

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    Who discovered oocysts in the stomach of female Anopheles 7

    A)  Ronald Ross   

    B)  Charles Lavern

    C)  Golgi          

    D)  Lamble

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    Sir Ronald Ross (1897) was the first to observe the oocytes of Plasmodium in the stomach of female Anopheles. He discovered that the disease malaria is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquito. Charles Laurn (1880) was the first who discovered this parasite (.Plasmodium) in the blood of man and also that the disease malaria is caused by this parasite. Golgi and Celli (1885) observed the parasite in RBCs and also that by injecting the blood of one malarial patient to other, the second one has also suffered from it.


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