Plasmodium coggeshalli is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Haemamoeba.
Like all Plasmodium species P. coggeshalli has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.
[edit] Description
The parasite was first described by Gres and Landau in 1997.[1]
[edit] Geographical occurrence
[edit] Clinical features and host pathology
[edit] References
- ^ Gres V. and Landau I. (1997) Les Plasmodium de Lophura (Phasianidae) : redescription de P. lophurae Coggeshall, 1938 et description de deux nouvelles espèces. Zoosystema 19 (4) 545-555
