Editing Malaria (section)

===Names===
Various types of malaria have been called by the names below:{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

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! Name !! Pathogen !! Notes
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| | algid malaria<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lacerda |first1=Marcus Vinícius Guimarães de |last2=Mourão |first2=Maria Paula Gomes |last3=Santos |first3=Pablo José Tomé dos |last4=Alecrim |first4=Maria das Graças Costa |date=Feb 2009 |title=Malária álgida: um diagnóstico sindrômico |journal=Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=79–81 |doi=10.1590/S0037-86822009000100017 |issn=0037-8682|doi-access=free |pmid=19287942 }}</ref>|| ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'' || severe malaria affecting the [[cardiovascular system]] and causing [[chills]] and [[circulatory shock]]
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| bilious malaria || ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'' || severe malaria affecting the [[liver]] and causing [[vomiting]] and [[jaundice]]
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| cerebral malaria || ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'' || severe malaria affecting the [[cerebrum]]
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| congenital malaria || various [[Plasmodium|plasmodia]] || ''Plasmodium'' [[vertically transmitted infection|introduced from the mother]] via the [[fetal circulation]]
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| pernicious malaria || ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'' || severe malaria leading to grave illness
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| malignant malaria || ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'' || severe malaria leading to death
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| falciparum malaria, ''Plasmodium falciparum'' malaria,  || ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'' ||
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| ovale malaria, ''Plasmodium ovale'' malaria || ''[[Plasmodium ovale]]'' ||
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| quartan malaria, malariae malaria, ''Plasmodium malariae'' malaria || ''[[Plasmodium malariae]]'' || paroxysms every fourth day ([[wikt:quartan#Adjective|quartan]]), counting the day of occurrence as the first day
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| quotidian malaria || ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'', ''[[Plasmodium vivax]]'', ''[[Plasmodium knowlesi]]'' || paroxysms daily ([[wikt:quotidian#Adjective|quotidian]])
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| tertian malaria || ''[[Plasmodium falciparum]]'', ''[[Plasmodium ovale]]'', ''[[Plasmodium vivax]]'' || paroxysms every third day ([[wikt:tertian#Adjective|tertian]]), counting the day of occurrence as the first
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| transfusion malaria || various [[Plasmodium|plasmodia]] || ''Plasmodium'' introduced by [[blood transfusion]], [[needle sharing]], or [[needlestick injury]]
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| vivax malaria, ''Plasmodium vivax'' malaria || ''[[Plasmodium vivax]]'' ||
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