Recurrence of malarial parasitaemia with fresh infection of RBC’s by merozoites derived from hypnozoites in the liver. The reappearance of a disease after a period when the symptoms lessened or ceased. A renewed manifestation of clinical symptoms and/or parasitaemia associated with malaria infection, separated from the previous manifestation by an interval greater than the one reflecting the normal periodicity of paroxysms.... relapse
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