Plasmodium gallinaceum

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

Plasmodium gallinaceum is a species of the genus Plasmodium (subgenus Haemamoeba) that causes malaria in poultry.

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[edit] Description

This species was described by Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt (1877 - 1951) a French professor of parasitology during a trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

[edit] Geographic range

[edit] Clinical features and host pathology

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