Plasmodium papernai

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Plasmodium papernai is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Novyella.

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

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

Contents

[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

  1. ^ 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
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