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    Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms...
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    Grassi categorized Plasmodium species based on the timing of fever in the patient; malignant tertian malaria was caused by Laverania malariae (now P. falciparum)...
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    split. These species appear to be more closely related to Plasmodium malariae than to Plasmodium vivax. The two species appear to differ biologically, with...
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    knowlesi Plasmodium hyobati Plasmodium malariae Plasmodium ovale Plasmodium petersi Plasmodium pitheci Plasmodium rhodiani Plasmodium schweitzi Plasmodium semiovale...
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    It is specifically caused by the Plasmodium malariae species, one of the six species of the protozoan genus Plasmodium. Quartan fever is a form of malaria...
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    different types of human malaria Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae. In 1897, William Welch identified and named Plasmodium falciparum. This was followed...
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    species Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae. Shortly after this Sakharov in 1889 and Marchiafava & Celli in 1890 independently identified Plasmodium falciparum...
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    Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen. This parasite is the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. Although...
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    benign tertian malaria) Plasmodium ovale wallikeri (another, less frequent, cause of benign tertian malaria) Plasmodium malariae (the cause of benign quartan...
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    morphological similarity to P. malariae, P. knowlesi is most closely related to P. vivax as well as other Plasmodium species that infect non-human primates...
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