plasmodium
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The working group also discovered that the autofluorescent artemisinin-coumarin hybrids are able to destroy a certain drug-resistant malaria pathogen called plasmodium palcifarum.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
The RTS,S vaccine targets the one that is most deadly and most common in Africa: plasmodium falciparum.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2021
It includes specimens large, small and deadly, such as the plasmodium parasite that causes malaria.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2016
Scientists at GlaxoSmithKline began working in 1987 on a vaccine that targeted the most severe of the four strains of malaria, plasmodium falciparum.
From US News ● Aug. 14, 2015
The plasmodium of our species is white; as it approaches maturity a rosy metallic tinge supervenes, quickly changing to dull yellow or alutaceous.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
The pulsating blobs of Texas-backyard mystery are plasmodia — multinucleate masses that course the forest until conditions are just right for them to form the colorful fruiting bodies full of spores.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
Neither plant nor animal, these single-cell amoebas feed on bacteria but aggregate when their food source becomes scarce to form glossy, bulbous, shape-shifting multicellular plasmodia that develop fruiting bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malaria is fought by fighting mosquitoes or by interrupting the plasmodia life-cycle at some point.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malaria is caused by plasmodia, which are protozoa, not bacteria, and it is carried from case to case by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
