"Malaria" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the PLASMODIUM genus: PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM OVALE; and PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus ANOPHELES. Malaria is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Oceania, and certain Caribbean islands. It is characterized by extreme exhaustion associated with paroxysms of high FEVER; SWEATING; shaking CHILLS; and ANEMIA. Malaria in ANIMALS is caused by other species of plasmodia.
| Descriptor ID |
D008288
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.752.530
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| Concept/Terms |
Malaria- Malaria
- Remittent Fever
- Fever, Remittent
- Paludism
- Plasmodium Infections
- Infections, Plasmodium
- Infection, Plasmodium
- Plasmodium Infection
- Marsh Fever
- Fever, Marsh
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Malaria" by people in Profiles.
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Serologic features of cohorts with variable genetic risk for systemic lupus erythematosus. Mol Med. 2018 06 01; 24(1):24.
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Comparing ownership and use of bed nets at two sites with differential malaria transmission in western Kenya. Malar J. 2016 Apr 14; 15:217.
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Antimalarial NADPH-Consuming Redox-Cyclers As Superior Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency Copycats. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2015 May 20; 22(15):1337-51.
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Problems in the therapy for imported malaria in the United States. Arch Intern Med. 2003 Sep 22; 163(17):2027-30.
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Mixed-species malaria infections in the human population of S?o Tom? island, west Africa. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2000 May-Jun; 94(3):256-7.
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Failure of Chloroquine prophylaxis in Plasmodium falciparum from East Africa. JAMA. 1981 Aug 28; 246(9):979-80.
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Host failure in treatment of malaria with sulfalene and pyrimethamine. Ann Intern Med. 1975 Feb; 82(2):219-23.