"Malaria" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the PLASMODIUM genus: PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM OVALE; and PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus ANOPHELES. Malaria is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Oceania, and certain Caribbean islands. It is characterized by extreme exhaustion associated with paroxysms of high FEVER; SWEATING; shaking CHILLS; and ANEMIA. Malaria in ANIMALS is caused by other species of plasmodia.
| Descriptor ID |
D008288
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.752.530
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| Concept/Terms |
Malaria- Malaria
- Remittent Fever
- Fever, Remittent
- Paludism
- Plasmodium Infections
- Infections, Plasmodium
- Infection, Plasmodium
- Plasmodium Infection
- Marsh Fever
- Fever, Marsh
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Malaria" by people in this website by year, and whether "Malaria" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 79 | 26 | 105 |
| 2018 | 83 | 13 | 96 |
| 2019 | 40 | 7 | 47 |
| 2020 | 11 | 5 | 16 |
| 2021 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Malaria" by people in Profiles.
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Increased risk of severe malaria in travellers during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Travel Med. 2021 08 27; 28(6).
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COVID-19 and Plasmodium ovale Malaria: A Rare Case of Co-Infection. Korean J Parasitol. 2021 Aug; 59(4):399-402.
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Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. Malar J. 2021 Aug 11; 20(1):339.
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Connected diagnostics to improve accurate diagnosis, treatment, and conditional payment of malaria services in Kenya. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2021 08 04; 21(1):233.
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COVID-19 and malaria, a tale of two diseases. EBioMedicine. 2021 Aug; 70:103554.
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Epidemiology, Biodiversity, and Technological Trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon: From Malaria to COVID-19. Front Public Health. 2021; 9:647754.
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Infectious disease-associated encephalopathies. Crit Care. 2021 07 06; 25(1):236.
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DrugComb update: a more comprehensive drug sensitivity data repository and analysis portal. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 07 02; 49(W1):W174-W184.
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Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis to Sustain Community-Based Malaria Interventions in Cambodia. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021 06 30; 9(2):344-354.
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Cross-Reactivity of Two SARS-CoV-2 Serological Assays in a Setting Where Malaria Is Endemic. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 06 18; 59(7):e0051421.