Discovery of malaria through years (1880-1889)

1. DISCOVERIES
ON MALARIA
1880-1889

2. DISCOVERY OF THE MALARIA
PARASITE (1880)
• Charles Louis
Alphonse
Laveran
----first to notice
parasites in the
blood of a patient
suffering from
malaria.

3. DIFFERENTIATION OF SPECIES OF
MALARIA(1886)
• Camillo Golgi
----established that
there were at least
two forms of the
disease, one with
tertian periodicity
and one with
quartan periodicity.

4. NAMING OF HUMAN MALARIA
PARASITES (1890,1897)
• Giovanni Batista Grassi
and Raimondo Filetti
---- first introduced the
names Plasmodium
vivax and P. malariae
----Laveran-Oscillaria
malariae
----William Welch-P.
falciparum

5. DISCOVERY THAT MOSQUITOES
TRANSMIT MALARIA PARASITES (1897-
1898)
• Ronald Ross
----was the first to
demonstrate that
malaria parasites
could be
transmitted from
infected patients to
mosquitoes.

6. DISCOVERY OF THE TRANSMISSION OF
THE HUMAN MALARIA PARASITES
Plasmodium(1898-1899)
• Led by Giovanni
Batista Grassi, a team
of Italian
investigators, which
included Amico
Bignami and
Giuseppe Bastianelli