<unk>  is a parasitic protozoan that causes<unk> in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms as pathogens, also including Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, responsible for most<unk>  infection. Found worldwide, it causes a so-called "benign<unk> , not nearly as dangerous as that produced by P. falciparum or P. vivax. The signs include fevers that recur at approximately three-day intervals – a quartan fever or quartan<unk> – longer than the two-day (tertian) intervals of the other<unk>  parasites.
Plasmodium malariae
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium ovale
Plasmodium chabaudi
Plasmodium knowlesi
Plasmodium unalis
Plasmodium yoelii
Leishmania infantum