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

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In the child it generally takes the form of tertian ague, that is to say the attack recurs every second day; one day of freedom intervening between two attacks.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles