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Malaria parasite   /məlˈɛriə pˈɛrəsˌaɪt/   Listen
Malaria parasite

noun
1.
Parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.  Synonyms: plasmodium, Plasmodium vivax.






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"Malaria parasite" Quotes from Famous Books



... reason for this was due to the fact that after the mosquito has sucked the blood of an individual infected with malaria, and been infected with the malaria parasite, the weather was not warm enough for the parasite to undergo its necessary transformation in the blood of the mosquito. A continuous warm period of several days' duration is necessary for this purpose, and in France these time periods never ...
— On the Fringe of the Great Fight • George G. Nasmith

... malaria parasite to that of recurrent fever is noted in the work of Sacharoff. He states that there exists in the blood of those suffering from recurrent fever a haematozoon, which is most prominent after the fever has begun to fall, when it is of enormous proportions, twenty or more diameters ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various



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