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

What has happened is that the little blood vessels at the surface of the body are shut up by the effect of the plasmodium upon the system.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)