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    Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms...
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    Grassi categorized Plasmodium species based on the timing of fever in the patient; malignant tertian malaria was caused by Laverania malariae (now P. falciparum)...
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    different types of human malaria Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae. In 1897, William Welch identified and named Plasmodium falciparum. This was followed...
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    It is specifically caused by the Plasmodium malariae species, one of the six species of the protozoan genus Plasmodium. Quartan fever is a form of malaria...
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    knowlesi Plasmodium hyobati Plasmodium malariae Plasmodium ovale Plasmodium petersi Plasmodium pitheci Plasmodium rhodiani Plasmodium schweitzi Plasmodium semiovale...
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    morphological similarity to P. malariae, P. knowlesi is most closely related to P. vivax as well as other Plasmodium species that infect non-human primates...
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    Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen. This parasite is the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. Although...
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    species Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae. Shortly after this Sakharov in 1889 and Marchiafava & Celli in 1890 independently identified Plasmodium falciparum...
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    benign tertian malaria) Plasmodium ovale wallikeri (another, less frequent, cause of benign tertian malaria) Plasmodium malariae (the cause of benign quartan...
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    split. These species appear to be more closely related to Plasmodium malariae than to Plasmodium vivax. The two species appear to differ biologically, with...
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  • into developing low cost microscopy solutions for the Global South. Plasmodium malariae and P. knowlesi (which is the most common cause of malaria in Southeast...
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    Toxoplasma gondii, Strongyloides stercoralis, Ascaris lumbricoides, and Plasmodium malariae. These organisms typically enter the body through direct contact...
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  • parasites that infect humans include Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodiun ovale, and Plasmodium malariae. The parasites are transmitted through...
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    Malaria (category Plasmodium)
    with parasites in the genus Plasmodium. In humans, malaria is caused by six Plasmodium species: P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale curtisi, P. ovale...
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    (now under the genus Plasmodium) in birds. They correctly described Haemamoeba malariae and H. vivax (both now under Plasmodium), which became fundamental...
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    Isomura, S.; Kawamoto, F. (April 1998). "High prevalence of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale in malaria patients along the Thai-Myanmar border, as...
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    Streptococcus Neisseria Salmonella typhi yes yes no Intracellular protozoa Plasmodium malariae Leishmania donovani no no yes Extracellular protozoa Entamoeba histolytica...
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    types of malaria, tertian and quartan fevers caused by Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae respectively. In 1886, he discovered that malarial fever...
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  • blood cells with Plasmodium falciparum. However, there have been other cases attributed to Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium knowlesi. Blackwater...
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    (nature) of malaria. He named the parasite Oscillaria malariae (later renamed Plasmodium malariae) and reported his discovery to the French Academy of...
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  • parasites Plasmodium tropiduri and P. holaspi or by the fish parasite Babesiosoma. It is also seen in the case of human parasite Plasmodium malariae. Pictures...
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  • been proposed that P. brasilianum be subsumed under the name P. malariae. Plasmodium brasilianum naturally infects species of primates from all New World...
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  • against Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae. As an alkaloid, it is accumulated in the food vacuoles of Plasmodium species, especially Plasmodium falciparum...
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  • In humans, malaria can be caused by five Plasmodium parasites, namely P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale and P. knowlesi. P. falciparum is...
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  • Malaria Plasmodium falciparum (80% of cases), Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale curtisi, Plasmodium ovale wallikeri, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium knowlesi...
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    species of Plasmodium cause malaria in humans: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium knowlesi and Plasmodium vivax (see...
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    quinine-containing cinchona bark for treatment of malaria caused by Plasmodium malariae). There were, however, those among his contemporaries who understood...
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    be infected with a variety of species; Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium ovale, and Plasmodium falciparum. In most instances of congenital...
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    investigate the conflicting discoveries of Plasmodium malariae by Alphonse Laveran, and of Bacillus malariae by Edwin Klebs and Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli...
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  • infection caused by the other species, which include Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium vivax, and Plasmodium ovale, the WHO recommends Chloroquine or Quinine...
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