Plasmodium osmaniae
Appearance
Plasmodium osmaniae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
Class: | Aconoidasida |
Order: | Haemospororida |
Family: | Plasmodiidae |
Genus: | Plasmodium |
Species: | P. osmaniae
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Binomial name | |
Plasmodium osmaniae Shortt, Rao, Qadri and Abraham, 1961
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Plasmodium osmaniae is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.
Like all Plasmodium species P. osmaniae has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are mammals.
Description
[edit]The parasite was first described by Shortt in 1961.[1] It was renamed Plasmodium shortii by Bray in 1963 and still later this species was then reclassified as Plasmodium inui.
References
[edit]- ^ Shortt, H.E.; Rao, G.; Qadri, S.S.; Abraham, R. (1961). "Plasmodium osmaniae, a malaria parasite of an Indian monkey Macaca radiata". Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 64: 140–143.