Disease Information for Malaria (Treatment)

Cameroon fever, Corsican fever, Disease due to Plasmodiidae, Disease due to Plasmodiidae (disorder), DISEASES DUE TO PLASMODIIDAE, E 540 DISEASES DUE TO PLASMODIIDAE, fever Cameroon, fever corsican, fever jungle, fever jungle fever, Fever Marsh, fever paludal, Fever Remittent, INFECT PLASMODIUM, Infection Plasmodium, Infections Plasmodium, jungle fever, jungle fever fever, malaria, Malaria (disorder), Malaria fever, Malaria unspecified, Malarial fever, Malarial fever (finding), Marsh Fever, paludal fever, Paludism, Plasmodia infections, Plasmodiosis, PLASMODIUM INFECT, Plasmodium infection, Plasmodium Infections, Remittent Fever, Unspecified malaria, Unspecified malaria (disorder)

A protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the genus PLASMODIUM (P falciparum (MALARIA, FALCIPARUM); P vivax (MALARIA, VIVAX); P ovale, and P 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;Synonyms: Acute Malaria; Ague; Autochthonous Malaria; Chronic Malaria; Imported Malaria; Induced Malaria; Intermittent Malaria; Jungle Fever; Paludism; Relapsing Malaria; Swamp Fever; Therapeutic Malaria; Subsets: Aesthetivoautumnal Fever; Algid Malaria; Benign Tertian Malaria; Bilious Remittent Malaria; Blackwater Fever ; Cerebral Malaria; Double Tertian Malaria; Dysentric Algid Malaria; Falciparum Fever; Gastric Malaria; Hemorrhagic Malaria; Malaria Comatosa; Malignant Tertian Fever; Malignant Tertian Malaria ; Nonan Malaria ; Ovale Tertian Malaria; Pernicious Malaria; Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria; Plasmodium Malariae Malaria; Plasmodium Ovale Malaria ; Plasmodium Vivax Malaria; Quartan Fever ; Quartan Malaria; Quotidian Fever; Quotidian Malaria; Remittent Malaria; Tertian Fever; Tertian Malaria; Vivax Fever; comment: Malaria is a communicable parasitic disorder spread through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito; Major symptoms may vary depending on which species of parasite causes the infection and the stage of development of the parasite; Chills and fever commonly occur, although not every case follows the same pattern;Although the disorder was once thought to be under control throughout the world, malaria is a widespread infection especially in the tropics where certain types of mosquitos are becoming resistant to pesticides; The annual number of cases reported in the United States has increased in recent years;[NORD]

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