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  • Among the species that become prevalent at higher altitude are the endemic Erica milanjiana, Phylica tropica and Aloe arborescens (up to 5m tall).

    South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

  • A. 19 Distribution of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. tropica and L. aethiopica in the Old World (WHO map 89962)

    Chapter 5 1996

  • A. 19 Distribution of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. tropica and L. aethiopica in the Old World (WHO map 89962)

    Chapter 5 1996

  • Nicolle was one of the first to recognize the protective properties of the convalescence serum against typhus and measles; and succeeded in cultivating Leishmania donovani and Leishmania tropica on artificial culture media.

    Charles Nicolle - Biography 1965

  • For instance it was quite obvious that these statistics frequently included cases of palpitations of the heart, oedema of the feet, as well as a new cause of death described as "hydraemia perniciosa tropica" - conditions which should obviously have been ascribed to beriberi.

    Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Experimental Investigation on _Framboesia tropica_ (Yaws).

    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

  • -- The plant has much reputation in India in the treatment of skin diseases, and indeed its efficiency is great in the stubborn _Tinea circinata tropica_, known throughout the Orient as "dhobie-itch."

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • Four of the mummies, including Tut, had genetic traces of malaria tropica, the most severe form of malaria.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • Tut and four other mummies tested positive for malaria tropica, the most severe form of the illness.

    AOL News Collection:All top stories collection 2010

  • Genetic testing for STEVOR, AMA1, or MSP1 genes specific for Plasmodium falciparum [the malaria parasite] revealed indications of malaria tropica in 4 mummies, including Tutankhamun's.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

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