Plasmodium malariae
"Plasmodium malariae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A protozoan parasite that occurs primarily in subtropical and temperate areas. It is the causal agent of quartan malaria. As the parasite grows it exhibits little ameboid activity.
| Descriptor ID |
D010965
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.043.075.380.611.661
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Plenderleith LJ, Liu W, Li Y, Loy DE, Mollison E, Connell J, Ayouba A, Esteban A, Peeters M, Sanz CM, Morgan DB, Wolfe ND, Ulrich M, Sachse A, Calvignac-Spencer S, Leendertz FH, Shaw GM, Hahn BH, Sharp PM. Zoonotic origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae from African apes. Nat Commun. 2022 04 06; 13(1):1868.