Plasmodium aegyptensis

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

Like all Plasmodium species it has vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate host is the Egyptian grass rat (Arvicanthis niloticus). The insect vector is not yet known.

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

Contents

[edit] Description

This species was first described in 1975 by Abd-el-Aziz et al. [1]

[edit] Geographic occurrence

[edit] Clinical features and host pathology

[edit] References

  1. ^ Abd-el-Aziz GA, Landau I, and Miltgen F. (1975) Description of Plasmodium aegyptensis n. sp., presumed parasite of the Muridae Arvicanthis noloticus in Upper Egypt. Ann Parasitol Hum Comp. 50(4):419-424.
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