tertian

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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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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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A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type.

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Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa.

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But the gout under which Alva labored was now aggravated by an attack of tertian ague, and for a week or more he was confined to his bed.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling