Malaria and Molecular Diagnosis

Abstract

Malaria is named after the Italian term “mal’aria”, which means “bad air” to represent the association of the disease with mar shy areas (Fikadu and Ashenafi, 2023; Tuteja, 2007). Towards the end of the 19th century, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon, noticed parasites in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, and Ronald Ross, a British medical offi cer in Hyderabad, India, discovered that mosquitoes transmitted malaria. The Italian professor Giovanni Battista Grassi subsequ ently showed that human malaria could only be transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes (Tuteja, 2007).