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Q. Who discovered Plasmodium in R.B.C. of human beings?

AIPMTAIPMT 1991Human Health and Disease

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Laveran discovered that malaria is caused by protozoan parasite (Plasmodium) in 1880. He discovered Plasmodium and got nobel prize in 1907. Sir Ronald Ross in 1897, a doctor in Indian Army, established that malarial parasite is transmitted by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and in 1902, he got Nobel prize for this discovery.