| ICTMM | International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria |
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| MCU | malaria control unit; maximum care unit; micturating cystourethrography; motor cortex unit |
| MIg | malaria immunoglobulin; measles immunoglobulin; membrane immunoglobulin |
| MT | magnetization transfer; malaria therapy; malignant teratoma; mammary tumor; mammilothalamic tract; m... |
| NMA | National Malaria Association; National Medical Association; neurogenic muscular atrophy; N-nitroso-N... |
| malaria, falciparum | The most dangerous type of malaria. Persons carrying the sickle cell gene have some protection against malaria. Persons with a gene for haemoglobin c (another abnormal haemoglobin like sickle haemoglobin), thalassaemia trait or deficiency of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) are thought also to have partial protection against malaria. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| malaria vaccines | Vaccines made from antigens arising from any of the four strains of plasmodium which cause malaria in humans, or from p. Berghei which causes malaria in rodents. (12 Dec 1998) |
| malaria, vivax | Malaria caused by plasmodium vivax. This form of malaria is less severe than malaria, falciparum, but there is a higher probability for relapses to occur. Febrile paroxysms often occur every other day. (12 Dec 1998) |
| malignant tertian malaria | <infectious disease> A tropical parasitic disease caused by one of the genus Plasmodium and carried by infected mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. This parasite uses red blood cells to complete its reproductive cycle. Common symptoms of an attack include high fever, chills, sweats and body aches. (27 Sep 1997) |
| relapsing malaria | Renewal of clinical activity at some interval after the primary attack. (05 Mar 2000) |
| remittent malaria | A malarial fever, usually of the severe falciparum type, in which the temperature falls but not to the normal level during the interval between two pronounced paroxysms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vivax malaria | <disease, microbiology> A type of malaria caused by the protozoan Plasmodium vivax, it isthe most common form of the disease, is rarely fatal but is the most difficult to cure, and is characterised by fevers that typically occur every other day. (11 Nov 1997) |
| cerebral malaria | A form of falciparum malaria characterised by cerebral involvement, with extreme hyperthermia and headache, and a case fatality rate of about 50%. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pernicious malaria | <infectious disease> A tropical parasitic disease caused by one of the genus Plasmodium and carried by infected mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. This parasite uses red blood cells to complete its reproductive cycle. Common symptoms of an attack include high fever, chills, sweats and body aches. (27 Sep 1997) |
| chronic malaria | Malaria that develops after frequently repeated attacks of one of the acute forms, usually falciparum malaria; it is characterised by profound anaemia, enlargement of the spleen, emaciation, mental depression, sallow complexion, oedema of ankles, feeble digestion, and muscular weakness. Synonym: limnaemia, malarial cachexia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| monkey malaria | Plasmodial infection of monkeys and apes, as with human malaria, transmitted chiefly by anopheline mosquitoes; a number of Plasmodium species are responsible, with Southeast Asia and Africa being the apparent centres of evolution; among the 20 plasmodial agents described from nonhuman primates, some resemble and induce a malarial infection similar to those caused by the four species of Plasmodium from humans, from which the agents of human malaria appear to be derived. Synonym: monkey malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simian malaria | Plasmodial infection of monkeys and apes, as with human malaria, transmitted chiefly by anopheline mosquitoes; a number of Plasmodium species are responsible, with Southeast Asia and Africa being the apparent centres of evolution; among the 20 plasmodial agents described from nonhuman primates, some resemble and induce a malarial infection similar to those caused by the four species of Plasmodium from humans, from which the agents of human malaria appear to be derived. Synonym: monkey malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nonan malaria | A malarial fever with paroxysms that occur every ninth day, i.e., every eighth day following the preceding paroxysm, the day of each paroxysm being included in the computation. Ovale malaria Ovale tertian malaria, malaria caused by Plasmodium ovale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| double tertian malaria | See: quotidian malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quartan malaria | A malarial fever with paroxysms that recur every 72 hours or every fourth day, reckoning the day of the paroxysm as the first; due to the schizogony and release of merozoites from infected cells, with invasion of new red blood corpuscles by Plasmodium malariae. Synonym: quartan fever, quartan malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |