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Descriptor
English
:
Malaria
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Malaria
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Malária
Synonyms
English
:
Marsh Fever
Plasmodium Infections
Remittent Fever
Tree Number:
C03.752.250.552
SP4.001.012.118.094
Definition
English
:
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.
Indexing Annotation
English
:
GEN or unspecified; specify
Plasmodium
species IM if possible but note P. falciparum
malaria
=
MALARIA
, FALCIPARUM; P. vivax
malaria
=
MALARIA
, VIVAX; tertian
malaria
=
MALARIA
, VIVAX, quartan
malaria
: coord IM with
PLASMODIUM MALARIAE
(IM); malariotherapy = HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED: do not confuse with
MALARIA
/ther; /drug ther: consider also
ANTIMALARIALS
See Related
English
:
Antimalarials
History Note
English
:
MALARIA CONTROL was heading 1963-66
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
blood
cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced
classification
congenital
complications
diet therapy
diagnosis
drug therapy
economics
ethnology
embryology
enzymology
epidemiology
etiology
genetics
history
immunology
metabolism
microbiology
mortality
nursing
pathology
prevention & control
physiopathology
parasitology
psychology
radiography
rehabilitation
radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy
surgery
therapy
transmission
urine
ultrasonography
veterinary
virology
Record Number:
8462
Unique Identifier:
D008288
Occurrence in VHL
:
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