Clinical features of Plasmodium malariae in Venezuela

摘要

Background: Despite the increased mass of knowledge in different aspects of malaria, P. malariae is the least studied of the four species that infect humans; in part because of its low prevalence. There is evidence that P. malariae infections are vastly underreported. We undertook a prospective cohort study to investigate the clinical features of P. malariae infections in endemic areas in Venezuela.