All P. falciparum parasites alive today appear to derive from an individual example of P. reichenowi. 今天存活的所有鏈狀瘧原蟲似乎均來源於里氏瘧原蟲的一種變異體。
Furthermore, it is effective against chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and in patients with cerebral malaria. 不僅如此，在對抗抗氯喹的惡性瘧原蟲瘧疾以及治療腦瘧疾患者上使用此葯，效果也很顯著。
A rival camp, however, argued that P. falciparum was a variant of P. gallinaceum, a parasite found in chickens. 然而和他相對立的陣營聲稱惡性瘧原蟲是在雞中發現的雞瘧原蟲的一個變種。
