Species Plasmodium vivax (Grassi & Feletti, 1890)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haemamoeba vivax Grassi, B. & Feletti, R. 1890. Parasites malariques chez les oiseaux. Arch. Ital. de Biologie. Archives Italiennes de Biologie 13: 297-300.

Generic Combinations

• Plasmodium vivax (Grassi & Feletti, 1890). —
  Marchiafava, E. & Celli, A. 1885. Weitere Untersuchungen über die Malariainfektion. Fortschritte der Medicin 3: 787–792
  ICZN 1954. Opinion 283. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 7: 225

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Anopheles amictus Edwards, 1921 [CULICIDAE] Anopheline Mosquito (salivary glands (exptl. infection)); Anopheles meraukensis Venhuis, 1932 [CULICIDAE] Anopheline Mosquito (gut (exptl. infection)); Anopheles stigmaticus Skuse, 1889 [CULICIDAE] Anopheline Mosquito (salivary glands (exptl. infection)); Anopheles punctulatus Dönitz, 1901 [CULICIDAE] Anopheline Mosquito (salivary glands (exptl. infection)); Anopheles farauti Laveran, 1902 [CULICIDAE] Australian Malaria Mosquito (salivary glands (exptl. infection)); Anopheles bancrofti Giles, 1902 [CULICIDAE] Black Australian Anopheline (salivary glands (exptl. infection)); Anopheles annulipes Walker, 1856 [CULICIDAE] Common Australian Anopheline (salivary glands (exptl. infection)); Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 [HOMINIDAE] Human (blood)).

Associated Fauna References

Anonymous 1946. Researches on "Paludrine" (M.4888) in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 234-236 (Anopheles punctulatus; Homo sapiens)

Biniss, R.T. 1945. A study of diseases of Australian natives in the Northern Territory. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 421-426 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1955. Deaths from malaria on the Australian mainland. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 387-388 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1959. Clinical features of overt vivax malaria seen in Australia: infections acquired in New Guinea. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 591-593 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1959. Haptoglobins and haemoglobins in Australian aborigines. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 175-177 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1960. Investigation of blood donors in accidental transfusion malaria - Plasmodium vivax, falciparum and malariae infections. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 446-449 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1970. Malaria in Australia, 1969. Modern Medicine of Australia 13: 31-38 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1971. Malaria in Australia, 1970. Modern Medicine of Australia 10: 13-25 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1972. Malaria in Australia. Commonwealth Department of Health Service Publication No. 9. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service. (Anopheles meraukensis; Anopheles amictus; Anopheles bancrofti; Anopheles farauti; Anopheles stigmaticus; Anopheles annulipes; Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1976. Malaria in Australia, 1974. Modern Medicine of Australia 5: 29-32 (Homo sapiens)

Boreham, R.E. & Relf, W.A. 1991. Imported malaria in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 155: 754-757 (Homo sapiens)

Breinl, A. & Taylor, F.H. 1918. A malarial survey of the township of Cairns. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 109-115 (Homo sapiens)

Brookes, D.L., Ritchie, S.A., Van Den Hurk, A.F., Fielding, J.R. & Loewenthal, M.R. 1997. Plasmodium vivax malaria acquired in far north Queensland. Medical Journal of Australia 166: 82-83 (Homo sapiens)

Cilento, R. 1942. Tropical diseases in Australasia. Brisbane : W.R. Smith & Paterson. (Anopheles punctulatus; Homo sapiens)

Cleland, J.B. 1928. Disease amongst the Australian aborigines. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 31: 157-160 (Homo sapiens)

Collier, J.M. 1944. A case of malaria acquired near Sydney, New South Wales. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 213-214 (Homo sapiens)

Cook, R.A. & Shannon, J. 1980. Malaria in southeast Queensland in 1979. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 670-673 (Homo sapiens)

Cumpston, J.H.L. 1989. Health and Disease in Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service. (Homo sapiens)

Fairley, N.H. 1945. Chemotherapeutic suppression and prophylaxis in malaria. An experimental investigation undertaken by medical research teams in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 38: 311-365 (Anopheles punctulatus; Homo sapiens)

Fairley, N.H. 1946. Malaria in the south-west Pacific, with special reference to its chemo-therapeutic control. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 145-162 (Homo sapiens)

Fairley, N.H. 1957. Experiments with antimalarial drugs in man: VI. The value of chloroquine diphosphate as a suppressive drug in volunteers exposed to experimental mosquito-transmitted malaria. (New Guinea strains). Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 51: 493-501 (Anopheles punctulatus; Homo sapiens)

Ford, E. 1950. The malaria problem in Australia and the Australian Pacific territories. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 749-760 (Homo sapiens)

Humphry, A.H. 1964. Malaria in the Northern Territory, with special reference to the outbreaks of 1955-1957. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 703-711 (Homo sapiens)

Jenkin, G.A., Ritchie, S.A., Hanna, J.N. & Brown, G.V. 1997. Airport malaria in Cairns. Medical Journal of Australia 166: 307-308 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. 1909. Notes on Australian entozoa. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 329-344 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. 1909. Notes on some Australian parasites. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 20: 581-584 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. 1910. Notes on some Australian parasites. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 20: 349-353 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. 1916. A census of the endoparasites recorded as occurring in Queensland, arranged under their hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 28: 31-79 (Homo sapiens)

Kitchener, S.J., Auliff, A.M. & Rieckmann, K.H. 2000. Malaria in the Australian Defence Force during and after participation in the International Force in East Timor (INTERFET). Medical Journal of Australia 173: 583-585 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. Part I. Monotremes and marsupials. Part II. Eutheria. Part III. Introduced herbivora and the domestic pig. Part IV. Man. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 101-160 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. & Ercole, Q.N. 1947. Observations on the action of paludrine on malarial parasites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 41: 365-376 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. & Ercole, Q.N. 1948. Observations on the development of human malarial parasites in the mosquito. 1. Morphological changes. Australian Journal of Experimantal Biology and Medical Science 26: 439-447 (Anopheles punctulatus; Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. & Ercole, Q.N. 1948. Observations on the development of human malarial parasites in the mosquito. II. Factors influencing infection. Australian Journal of Experimantal Biology and Medical Science 26: 449-458 (Anopheles punctulatus; Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. & Ercole, Q.N. 1949. Some observations on the action of quinine, atebrin, and plasmoquine on Plasmodium vivax. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 42: 443-454 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. & Roberts, F.H.S. 1947. Experimental malarial infections in Australasian anophelines. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 41: 329-356 (Anopheles meraukensis; Anopheles amictus; Anopheles bancrofti; Anopheles farauti; Anopheles stigmaticus; Anopheles annulipes; Homo sapiens)

McCall, B.J. & Pearce, M.C. 1994. Malaria treatment in Queensland, 1992. The use of malaria treatment guidelines. Medical Journal of Australia . 161: 259-262 (Homo sapiens)

Money, R.A. 1926. A case of malaria acquired in Sydney. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 283-284 (Homo sapiens)

O'Brien, R.A. 1908. Notes from north Queensland. Australian Medical Gazette 27: 121-124 (Homo sapiens)

O'Brien, R.A. 1909. Ankylostomiasis and other tropical diseases in Queensland. Transactions of the Medical Congress 2: 324-328 (Homo sapiens)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1943. Observations on Anopheles annulipes Walk. as a possible vector of malaria. 1. The relative susceptibility of An. annulipes and An. punctulatus var. moluccensis Sw. to experimental infection with malaria parasites. Australian Journal of Experimantal Biology and Medical Science 21: 259-262 (Anopheles punctulatus; Anopheles annulipes; Homo sapiens)

Spencer, M. 1994. Malaria. The Australian experience 1843-1991. Townsville : Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Image Print). (Anopheles amictus; Anopheles bancrofti; Anopheles farauti; Anopheles punctulatus; Anopheles stigmaticus; Anopheles annulipes)

Spencer, M. 1994. Malaria and the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit, 1943-1946. Medical Journal of Australia 161: 78-82 (Anopheles amictus; Anopheles farauti; Anopheles punctulatus; Anopheles annulipes)

Sweeney, A.W. 1996. The possibility of an "X" factor. The first documented drug resistance of human malaria. International Journal for Parasitology 26: 1035-1061 (Homo sapiens)

Winterbotham, L.P. & Arden, F. 1943. Two cases of benign tertian malaria in civilians. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 129-130 (Homo sapiens)

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