Plasmodium melanipherum

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Plasmodium melanipherum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.

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

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

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[edit] Description

This species was first described by Dionisi in 1899. A subspecies (P. melanipherum monosoma) was later described by Vassal in 1907

[edit] Geographical occurrence

[edit] Clinical features and host pathology

P. melanipherum infects Schreiber's bat (Miniopterus schreibersi).

P. melanipherum monosoma infects the bat Vesperugo abramus.

[edit] References

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