"Malaria" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D008288
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.752.530
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| Concept/Terms |
Malaria- Malaria
- Remittent Fever
- Fever, Remittent
- Paludism
- Plasmodium Infections
- Infections, Plasmodium
- Infection, Plasmodium
- Plasmodium Infection
- Marsh Fever
- Fever, Marsh
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Malaria" by people in Profiles.
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Leuba SI, Westreich D, Bose CL, Powers KA, Olshan A, Taylor SM, Tshefu A, Lokangaka A, Carlo WA, Chomba E, Liechty EA, Bucher SL, Esamai F, Jessani S, Saleem S, Goldenberg RL, Moore J, Nolen T, Hemingway-Foday J, McClure EM, Koso-Thomas M, Derman RJ, Hoffman M, Bauserman M. Predictors of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in the First Trimester Among Nulliparous Women From Kenya, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. J Infect Dis. 2022 Jun 01; 225(11):2002-2010.
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Bauserman M, Leuba SI, Hemingway-Foday J, Nolen TL, Moore J, McClure EM, Lokangaka A, Tsehfu A, Patterson J, Liechty EA, Esamai F, Carlo WA, Chomba E, Goldenberg RL, Saleem S, Jessani S, Koso-Thomas M, Hoffman M, Derman RJ, Meshnick SR, Bose CL. The efficacy of low-dose aspirin in pregnancy among women in malaria-endemic countries. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2022 Apr 10; 22(1):303.
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Anaele BI, Varshney K, Ugwu FSO, Frasso R. The efficacy of insecticide-treated window screens and eaves against Anopheles mosquitoes: a scoping review. Malar J. 2021 Sep 29; 20(1):388.
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Parsel SM, Gustafson SA, Friedlander E, Shnyra AA, Adegbulu AJ, Liu Y, Parrish NM, Jamal SA, Lofthus E, Ayuk L, Awasom C, Henry CJ, McArthur CP. Malaria over-diagnosis in Cameroon: diagnostic accuracy of Fluorescence and Staining Technologies (FAST) Malaria Stain and LED microscopy versus Giemsa and bright field microscopy validated by polymerase chain reaction. Infect Dis Poverty. 2017 Apr 04; 6(1):32.
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Kamuliwo M, Kirk KE, Chanda E, Elbadry MA, Lubinda J, Weppelmann TA, Mukonka VM, Zhang W, Mushinge G, Mwanza-Ingwe M, Haque U. Spatial patterns and determinants of malaria infection during pregnancy in Zambia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Aug; 109(8):514-21.
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Swardson-Olver CJ, Dawson TC, Burnett RC, Peiper SC, Maeda N, Avery AC. Plasmodium yoelii uses the murine Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines as a receptor for normocyte invasion and an alternative receptor for reticulocyte invasion. Blood. 2002 Apr 15; 99(8):2677-84.