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Infections > Parasitic Diseases > Protozoan Infections > Malaria
Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Malaria

Preferred term

Malaria  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Fever, Marsh
  • Fever, Remittent
  • Infection, Plasmodium
  • Infections, Plasmodium
  • Marsh Fever
  • Paludism
  • Plasmodium Infection
  • Plasmodium Infections
  • Remittent Fever

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; specify Plasmodium species if possible but note P. falciparum malaria equals MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; P. vivax malaria equals MALARIA, VIVAX; tertian malaria equals MALARIA, VIVAX, quartan malaria: coordinate with PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; malariotherapy equals HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED: do not confuse with MALARIA /ther

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • MALARIA CONTROL was heading 1963-66

In other languages

  • malaria

    Finnish

  • horkka
  • kliinisesti diagnosoitu parasitologisesti varmentamaton malaria
  • kliniskt diagnosticerad malaria som ej verifierats parasitologiskt
  • malaria cum diagnosi clinica sine confirmatione parasitologica
  • malaria non specificata
  • malariakuume
  • määrittämätön malaria
  • ospecificerad malaria
  • vilutauti
  • Malaria

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008288

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