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Plasmodium coggeshalli
Species of single-celled organism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Plasmodium coggeshalli is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Haemamoeba.
Like all Plasmodium species P. coggeshalli has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.
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Taxonomy
The type specimen had been originally classified as Plasmodium lophurae but was described as a new species by Gres and Landau in 1997 based on morphology of the parasite and host cell.[1]
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