Plasmodium is a member of the phylum Apicomplexa, a large group of parasitic eukaryotes. Within Apicomplexa, Plasmodium is in the order Haemosporida and family Plasmodiidae. Over 200 species of Plasmodium have been described, many of which have been subdivided into 14 subgenera based on parasite morphology and host range.

2025年1月22日 · Plasmodium, a genus of parasitic protozoans of the sporozoan subclass Coccidia that are the causative organisms of malaria. Plasmodium, which infects red blood cells in mammals (including humans), birds, and reptiles, occurs worldwide, especially in tropical and temperate zones.

Plasmodium, commonly known as malaria parasites, may be described as a genus of intracellular parasitic protozoa. They are obligate parasites of insects (such as mosquitoes) and vertebrates and thus referred to as digenetic parasites.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1880), a physician with the French army first observed some amoeba-like organisms termed them Plasmodium, in the red blood cells of a patient in Algeria, N. Africa suffering from ma­laria. He was awarded Nobel Prize in 1907 for the role of plasmodium in caus­ing malaria. (ii) Patrick Manson (1894):

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.

Plasmodium species have remarkable genetic flexibility which lets them adapt to alterations in the environment, giving them the potential to quickly develop resistance to therapeutics such as antimalarials and to change host specificity. In this article, selected topics involving the Plasmodium species that cause malaria in humans are reviewed.

2024年3月27日 · Plasmodium, a parasitic protozoan causing malaria, has a specialized unicellular structure enclosed by a plasma membrane. The diagram of Plasmodium shows its structure that contains an apical complex, nucleus, and specialized …

The Apicomplexia - the phylum to which Plasmodium belongs - are thought to have originated within the Dinoflagellates - a large group of photosynthetic protozoa. It is currently thought that the ancestors of the Apicomplexia were originally prey organisms that evolved the ability to invade the intestinal cells and subsequently lost their ...

2024年4月5日 · Plasmodium belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa and is a eukaryotic organism with a defined nucleus and membrane-bound cell organelles. Plasmodium is an obligate intracellular parasite, meaning it requires a host cell to complete its life cycle.

Plasmodium is a genus of parasites belonging to the family Plasmodiidae, order Haemosporidia and phylum Apicomplexa. The genus Plasmodium is subdivided into 10 subgenera. Malaria parasites in humans are all classified in the subgenera Plasmodium and Laverania.