Service de Neurologie, Groupe Hospitalier de l'Institut Catholique de Lille, GHICL, 115 Rue du Grand but, 59462, Lomme Cedex, France.
Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Parasit Vectors. 2024 Apr 10;17(1):184. doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06145-4.
Human malaria, an ancient tropical disease, is caused by infection with protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Plasmodium and is transmitted by female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Our understanding of human malaria parasites began officially in 1880 with their discovery in the blood of malaria patients by Charles Louis Alphonse Lavéran (1845-1922), a French army officer working in Algeria. A claim for priority was made by Philipp Friedrich Hermann Klencke (1813-1881) in 1843, who wrote a chapter entitled: "Marvellous parallelism between the manifestations of vertigo and the presence of animalcule vacuoles in living blood." We should not lose sight of this old controversy, which is rarely mentioned in historical reviews on malaria.
人类疟疾是一种古老的热带疾病，由属于疟原虫属的原生动物寄生虫感染引起，由按蚊属的雌性蚊子传播。我们对人类疟原虫的认识始于 1880 年，当时法国陆军军官查尔斯·路易·阿尔方斯·拉弗朗（Charles Louis Alphonse Lavéran，1845-1922 年）在阿尔及利亚工作时，在疟疾患者的血液中发现了疟原虫。1843 年，菲利普·弗里德里希·赫尔曼·克伦克（Philipp Friedrich Hermann Klencke，1813-1881 年）提出了优先权的主张，他写了一章，题为：“头晕的表现与活体血液中动物空泡的存在之间惊人的平行。”我们不应忽视这一古老的争议，因为它在疟疾的历史综述中很少被提及。
