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.

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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