TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Atlas of Blood Smears of Malaria and Babesiosis A1 - White, Nicholas J. A1 - Breman, Joel G. A2 - Jameson, J. Larry A2 - Fauci, Anthony S. A2 - Kasper, Dennis L. A2 - Hauser, Stephen L. A2 - Longo, Dan L. A2 - Loscalzo, Joseph PY - 2018 T2 - Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e AB - Six species of blood protozoan parasites cause human malaria (Chap. 219): 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. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1164034492 ER -