Multiple choice

The high virulence of P. falciparum can be attributed to

  1. high possibility of drug resistance

  2. formation of merozoites

  3. its tendency to infect large proportion of the RBC

  4. the fact that mosquitoes are the most favourable definitive host
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Explanation

P. falciparum has the tendency to infect large proportion of RBC. Patients infected with P. falciparum species will exhibit ten times the number of parasites per cubic millimetre of blood than the patients infected with the other three malaria species.

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