tertian
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Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria.
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Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito.
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Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth.
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A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type.
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The tertian of Egypt, so fatal among the French troops, now numbered him among its victims, and he looked worn and exhausted, like one after weeks of illness.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James
