Giovanni Battista Grassi
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Giovanni Battista Grassi was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the Universi
Giovanni Battista Grassi
Giovanni Battista Grassi
Statue of Grassi in the garden of Villa Borghese in Rome, Italy
Plasmodium falciparum
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Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans and is the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female A
Giovanni Battista Grassi
…tertian by P. falciparum and benign quartan by P. malariae). He was the first to describe and establish the life cycle of the human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, the most prevalent and deadliest species. He discovered that only female anopheline mosquitoes are capable of transmitting the disease. Grassi's works…
Laveran's drawing of various stages of P. falciparum as seen on fresh blood (1880).
Blood smear from a P. falciparum culture (K1 strain - asexual forms) - several red blood cells have ring stages inside them. Close to the center is a schizont and on the left a trophozoite.
Ring forms in red blood cells (Giemsa stain)
Anopheles mosquito, the carrier of Plasmodium falciparum