RT Book, Section 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 SR Print(0) ID 1164034492 T1 Atlas of Blood Smears of Malaria and Babesiosis T2 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259644016 LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1164034492 RD 2024/03/29 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.