"Malaria, Falciparum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Malaria caused by PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM. This is the severest form of malaria and is associated with the highest levels of parasites in the blood. This disease is characterized by irregularly recurring febrile paroxysms that in extreme cases occur with acute cerebral, renal, or gastrointestinal manifestations.
| Descriptor ID |
D016778
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.752.530.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Malaria, Falciparum- Malaria, Falciparum
- Plasmodium falciparum Malaria
- Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Malaria, 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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Spontaneous rupture of the malarial spleen. Am J Med. 2001 Sep; 111(4):330-1.
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Deficits in delayed memory following cerebral malaria: a case study. Cortex. 1997 Jun; 33(2):385-8.