Nester's Microbiology 8th Edition by Denise Anderson,Sarah Salm,Deborah Allen

Exercise 10

Which of the following statements about malaria is true ?
A) Transmission cannot occur in temperate climates.
B) Transmission usually occurs with the bite of a male Anopheles mosquito.
C) The disease is currently well controlled in tropical Africa.
D) P. falciparum infects only old RBCs and therefore causes milder disease than other Plasmodium species.
E) The characteristic recurrent fevers are associated with release of merozoites from RBCs.