Word: plasmodium
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...School researchers reported that they were getting warm. In a paper so important that it got a prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, they announced that they had bred in a test tube two types of animalcules. One causes malaria in monkeys and the other (Plasmodium vivax...
...protozoa which cause the disease are carried by about 60 kinds of mosquitoes and are of four main varieties, each producing its own form of malaria: 1) Plasmodium vivax produces the mildest disease, benign tertian malaria; 2) P. malariae bring on quartan malaria, the most difficult to eradicate; 3) P. falciparum produces dangerous malignant tertian malaria; 4) P. ovale produces symptoms similar to those of benign tertian malaria...
Malaria, the most widespread and destructive, is caused by a microscopic parasite, the Plasmodium, carried by many species of the Anopheles mosquito. The chills, fever and delirium of malaria may recur for many years. Malaria can be treated by constant doses of quinine, and a newer drug, stabrine. But there is no immunization against malaria. Warned Dr. Meleney: "We may expect a tremendous morbidity and mortality from malaria in the armed forces during the present conflict...
Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...
...causing the secretion of saliva and gastric juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal?plasmodium malariae?introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...