Helen Joy Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003575
The history of malaria is concerned with the prehistory of malaria parasites, the clinical description of febrile illnesses associated with swamps and marshes and the identification of the four human malaria parasites and the mosquito vector. Through understanding of the life cycle methods of control (pre DDT) and treatment were developed and attempts made to achieve global eradication.
Keywords: plasmodia; anopheles; entomology; antimalarials; drug resistance
| Further Reading | |
| book Bruce-Chwatt LJ and Zulueta J de (1980) The Rise and Fall of Malaria in Europe: A Historico-epidemiological Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Bynum WF and Overy C (1998) The Beast in the Mosquito: The Correspondence of Ronald Ross & Patrick Manson. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rudopi. | |
| book Escalante AA and Ayala FJ (1996) "Molecular paleogenetics: the evolutionary history of Plasmodium and related protists". In: Jablonski D, Erwin DH and Lipps JH (eds) Evolutionary Paleobiology, pp. 21–41. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. | |
| Escalante AA, Lala AA and Ayala FJ (1998) Genetic polymorphism and natural selection in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Genetics 149: 189–202. | |
| book Harrison G (1978) Mosquitoes, Malaria and Man: A History of Hostilities since 1880. New York: E P Dutton. | |
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