Plasmodium fairchildi

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Plasmodium fairchildi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium.

Like all Plasmodium species it has vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts are reptiles. The insect vector is not known.

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

Contents

[edit] Description

This species was described by Telford in 1989.

[edit] Geographic occurrence

[edit] Clinical features and host pathology

The only known host is the lizard Anolis cupreus.

[edit] References

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