Plasmodium brumpti

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Plasmodium brumpti is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Sauramoeba.

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

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

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[edit] Description

This species was described by Peláez and Perez-Reyes in 1952.

It was named after Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt (1877-1951) a French professor of parasitology.

The schizonts may be lateral (elongated) or polar (more rounded) in the erythrocyte and produce 15-20 merozoites.

The gametocytes may be lateral (elongated) or polar (spherical to reniform).

The larger schizonts and mature gametocytes cause enlargement of the erythrocyte.

[edit] Geographical occurrence

[edit] Clinical features and host pathology

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