"Plasmodium falciparum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A species of protozoa that is the causal agent of falciparum malaria (MALARIA, FALCIPARUM). It is most prevalent in the tropics and subtropics.
| Descriptor ID |
D010963
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.043.075.380.611.561
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plasmodium falciparum" by people in Profiles.
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Production, Quality Control, Stability and Pharmacotoxicity of a Malaria Vaccine Comprising Three Highly Similar PfAMA1 Protein Molecules to Overcome Antigenic Variation. PLoS One. 2016; 11(10):e0164053.
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Assessment of the therapeutic efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in northern KwaZulu-Natal: an observational cohort study. Malar J. 2012 Dec 28; 11:434.
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of 1,4-naphthoquinones and quinoline-5,8-diones as antimalarial and schistosomicidal agents. Org Biomol Chem. 2012 Aug 21; 10(31):6375-87.
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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.