Cerebral Symptoms in Benign Tertian Infection
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Benign tertian malarial parasites have never or very rarely been held responsible for producing symptoms of cerebral infection. Textbooks are almost silent regarding the discussion of such a possibility. Subtertian parasite, by virtue of its small size and its special predilection to invade the brain, has been always found to be the only parasite producing cerebral and other unusual symptoms. The ring of benign tertian parasite measuring double the size of that of subtertian parasite (3/a against 1.5 yu) and its schizont stage attaining a large size?larger than a blood corpuscle (9/a to 10/x) ?may account for the difficulty or rather the
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