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parasitemia
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parasitemia [‚par·ə·si′tē·mē·ə]
(medicine)
The presence of parasites in the blood.
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Individuals who have acquired partial immunity through previous bouts of malaria develop a 'parasitic threshold' below which parasitaemia will not cause febrile disease, but the non-immune, malaria-naive traveller will develop febrile disease at very low parasite counts (~10/[micro]l).
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