Plasmodium brumpti

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Plasmodium brumpti is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Sauramoeba.

Like all Plasmodium species P. brumpti has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are reptiles.

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Plasmodium brumpti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemosporida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species: P. brumpti
Binomial name
Plasmodium brumpti

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[edit] Description

This species was described by Peláez and Perez-Reyes in 1952.

It was named after Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt (1877-1951) a French professor of parasitology.

The schizonts may be lateral (elongated) or polar (more rounded) in the erythrocyte and produce 15-20 merozoites.

The gametocytes may be lateral (elongated) or polar (spherical to reniform).

The larger schizonts and mature gametocytes cause enlargement of the erythrocyte.

[edit] Geographical occurrence

[edit] Clinical features and host pathology

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