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 2022/05/18
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.