Plasmodium is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects. The life cycles of Plasmodium species involve...
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Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. The parasite...
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Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen. This parasite is the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. Although...
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Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms...
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The genus Plasmodium is a member of the order Haemosporidia. It is the largest genus within this order and currently consists of over 250 species. They...
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Malaria (category Plasmodium)
malaria. Human malaria is caused by single-celled microorganisms of the Plasmodium group. It is spread exclusively through bites of infected female Anopheles...
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Plasmodium ovale is a species of parasitic protozoon that causes tertian malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect...
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A plasmodium is a living structure of cytoplasm that contains many nuclei, rather than being divided into individual cells each with a single nucleus....
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Plasmodium knowlesi is a parasite that causes malaria in humans and other primates. It is found throughout Southeast Asia, and is the most common cause...
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Gametocyte (section Plasmodium falciparum)
example, when talking about gametocytes of species like Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax, which transmit malaria.[citation needed] Gametocytes...
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Organisms whose life cycles rely on this process include Theileria, Babesia, Plasmodium, and Toxoplasma gondii. Sporogony is a type of sexual and asexual reproduction...
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science and medicine for hundreds of years. Since the discovery of the Plasmodium parasites which cause it, research attention has focused on their biology...
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Disease resistance (redirect from Plasmodium resistance)
Disease resistance is the ability to prevent or reduce the presence of diseases in otherwise susceptible hosts. It can arise from genetic or environmental...
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London Underground mosquito (redirect from Plasmodium relictum pGRW11)
only as a fully competent host of one kind of malaria, Plasmodium garnhami. Only this Plasmodium had been demonstrated to complete sporogony by Garnham...
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Plasmodium japonicum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. japonicum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
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Fallisia siamense (redirect from Plasmodium siamense)
Fallisia siamense is a parasite in the family Garniidae. The parasite was first described by Telford in 1986. This species is found in Thailand. Not known...
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Plasmodium jiangi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Novyella. As in all Plasmodium species, P. jiangi has both vertebrate and insect hosts...
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“acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the life cycle: the plasmodium is a bright yellow macroscopic multinucleate coenocyte shaped in a network...
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malaria, exclusively found in infections caused by Plasmodium ovale or Plasmodium vivax. Plasmodium vivax induces morphologic alterations in infected host...
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Haematozoa (section Plasmodium)
blood parasites of the Apicomplexa clade. Well known examples include the Plasmodium spp. which cause malaria in humans and Theileria which causes theileriosis...
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Hepatocystis vassali (redirect from Plasmodium vassali)
Hepatocystis vassali is a species of parasitic protozoa that infect mammals. The parasite was first described by Laveran in 1905. The only known host is...
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Hepatocystis pteropi (redirect from Plasmodium pteropti)
Family: Plasmodiidae Genus: Hepatocystis Species: H. pteropi Binomial name Hepatocystis pteropi (Breinl, 1913) Synonyms Plasmodium pteropi Breinl, 1913...
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Plasmodium bigueti is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. bigueti has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
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Plasmodium coatneyi is a parasitic species that is an agent of malaria in nonhuman primates. P. coatneyi occurs in Southeast Asia.[citation needed] The...
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Plasmodium eylesi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. eylesi has both vertebrate and insect hosts...
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The Plasmodium species infecting primates include the parasites causing malaria in humans. Plasmodium falciparum (the cause of malignant tertian malaria)...
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Plasmodium accipiteris is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. accipiteris has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
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is one of four Plasmodium species described in lemurs before 1975; others were Plasmodium foleyi and Plasmodium lemuris. "Plasmodium girardi" (PDF)....
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Plasmodium fieldi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium sub genus Plasmodium found in Malaysia. This species is related to Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium...
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Plasmodium cynomolgi is an apicomplexan parasite that infects mosquitoes and Asian Old World monkeys. In recent years, a number of natural infections of...
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