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List of Plasmodium species False-colored electron micrograph of a sporozoite Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Clade: Diaphoretickes Clade: TSAR Clade: SAR Clade: Alveolata Phylum: Apicomplexa Class: Aconoidasida Order: Haemospororida Family: Plasmodiidae Genus: Plasmodium Marchiafava & Celli, 1885 Subgenera Plasmodium (Bennettinia) Plasmodium (Carinamoeba) Plasmodium (Giovannolaia ...
Main article: Human parasite Endoparasites Protozoan organisms Common name of organism or disease Latin name (sorted) Body parts affected Diagnostic specimen Prevalence Source/Transmission (Reservoir/Vector) Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis (eye infection) Acanthamoeba spp. eye, brain, skin culture worldwide contact lenses cleaned with contaminated tap water ...
All Plasmodium species are parasitic and must pass between a vertebrate host and an insect host to complete their life cycles. Different species of Plasmodium display different host ranges, with some species restricted to a single vertebrate and insect host, while other species can infect several species of vertebrates and/or insects.
These can be categorized into three groups; cestodes, nematodes and trematodes.Examples include: Acanthocephala; Ascariasis (roundworms); Cestoda (tapeworms) including: Taenia saginata (human beef tapeworm), Taenia solium (human pork tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm) and Echinococcosis (hydatid tapeworm)
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Subgenus Plasmodium Bray 1963 emend. Garnham 1964; Subgenus Sauramoeba Garnham 1966; Subgenus Vinckeia Garnham 1964; Genus Polychromophilus Landau et al 1984; Genus Rayella Dasgupta 1967; Genus Saurocytozoon Lainson & Shaw 1969; Genus †Vetufebrus Poinar 2011; The genus Mesnilium is the only taxon that infects fish. The genus has a single ...
These species are Plasmodium ovale curtisi and Plasmodium ovale wallikeri. [23] These two species separated between 1.0 and 3.5 million years ago. Knowlesi. Plasmodium knowlesi has a natural reservoir in the macaques of Southeast Asia, and was only in 1965 identified as being transmissible to humans. Other species
Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms as pathogens, also including Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, responsible for most malarial infection.