Plasmodium malariae

The type species is Plasmodium malariae.

The morphology of Plasmodium knowlesi is similar to that of Plasmodium malariae.

Plasmodium malariae and P. knowlesi (which is the most common cause of malaria in South-east Asia) look very similar under the microscope.

Two chimpanzee samples tested positive for Plasmodium ovale and one for Plasmodium malariae.

Quinine is an alkaloid that acts as a blood schizonticidal and weak gametocide against Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae.

Also in 1886 Golgi described the morphological differences that are still used to distinguish two malaria parasite species Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae.

In the species Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium vivax, but not in Plasmodium malariae, hypnozoites have been shown to occur.

A variety of parasites can affect the lungs, including: Toxoplasma gondii, Strongyloides stercoralis, Ascaris lumbricoides, and Plasmodium malariae.

There are four types of malaria: Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, and Plasmodium ovale.

The four species of malaria parasites infective to humans are Plasmodium falciparum,Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium vivax & Plasmodium ovale.

Malaria is caused by five Plasmodium species: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium knowlesi.

He studied the life cycle of Plasmodium and related the timing of tertian and quartan fevers seen in malaria with the life cycle of the organisms now named Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae, respectively.

The causal parasite, a one-celled organism which thrived in red blood cells and was named Plasmodium malariae, was first seen under a microscope in 1880 by the French physician Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922) while he was serving in Algeria.