What type of pathogen is malaria?

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Linica Uday
Nov 4, 2016

Malaria is a parasitic protozoan pathogen.

Explanation:

Malaria is a mosquito borne infectious disease affecting humans, belonging to the Plasmodium type.

It is transmitted by an infected female Anopheles mosquito. The mosquito bite introduces the parasite from the mosquitoes saliva into a persons blood.

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