RT Book, Section A1 White, Nicholas J. A1 Breman, Joel G. A2 Kasper, Dennis L. A2 Fauci, Anthony S. SR Print(0) ID 1141413352 T1 ATLAS OF BLOOD SMEARS OF MALARIA AND BABESIOSIS T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259835971 LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141413352 RD 2023/02/07 AB Six species of blood protozoan parasites cause human malaria (Chap. 123): the potentially lethal and often drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum; the relapsing parasites Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale (with what appear to be two morphologically identical sympatric species of P. ovale); Plasmodium malariae, which can persist at low densities for years; and, in infections in individuals living in or close to tropical forests in Southeast Asia, Plasmodium knowlesi, a monkey parasite that microscopically resembles P. falciparum (young forms) and P. malariae (older forms) but is identified definitively by molecular methods.