malarial pneumonitis

malarial pneumonitis
pneumonitis caused by Plasmodium falciparum, characterized by cough with bloody sputum and coarse rales; in severe cases thromboses may result from the agglutination of parasitized erythrocytes in small blood vessels of the lung.

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