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.
    

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Observations on malaria / by medical officers of the army and others ; edited by Sir Ronald Ross.

Four immunization guideline cards for infants of varying ages: immunizing against malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.

The prevention of malaria / by Ronald Ross ; with contributions by L.O. Howard [and others].

Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.

The human blood index of malaria vectors in relation to epidemiological assessment / C. Garrett-Jones.

The prevention of malaria.

The life cycle of the mosquito that causes malaria fever. Colour lithograph by the Division of Health Education, ca, 2000.

Selected monographs.

A report on an enquiry into the prevalence of malaria in Meerut, 1911 / [J.D. Graham].

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Malaria