plasmodiid infectious disease malaria 84 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDDRA/10025487 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008288 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/61462000 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_12365 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C34797 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12156 A parasitic protozoa infectious disease characterized as a vector-borne infectious disease caused by the presence of protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium in the red blood cells, transmitted from an infected to an uninfected individual by the bite of anopheline mosquitoes, and characterized by periodic attacks of chills and fever that coincide with mass destruction of blood cells and the release of toxic substances by the parasite at the end of each reproductive cycle. 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. malaria NOS malaria, unspecified plasmodia infection