Explains how the female mosquito bite a human being and infects them with the malaria parasite. Shows how it lodges in the liver and develops. Explains the two types of ‘tertian’ and ‘qurtan’ fevers. Very technical terms are used to explain the redevelopment of the parasites within the mosquito and the many forms of the parasite Presents in animation exoerythrocytic and erythrocytic schizogony and gametogony in man, and sporogony in the Anopheles mosquito; pictures the differential characteristic of plasmodia in thin and thick blood films.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
314188
Language
English
Subject categories
Animals & Wildlife → Mosquitoes
Animals & Wildlife → Parasites
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Medicine - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Malaria
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Research
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Study and teaching
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)