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plasmodium

[plaz-moh-dee-uhm] / plæzˈmoʊ di əm /


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Improved surveillance to track the spread of resistant plasmodia is critical to maintaining progress, including using molecular and genomic techniques.

From Scientific American

The study also found that Ivermectin can kill plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite carried by female mosquitoes, when administered to humans.

From The Guardian

Recurring malaria - caused by the parasite plasmodium vivax - is the most common type of malaria outside Sub-Saharan Africa.

From BBC

Parasites such as the four species of plasmodium that cause malaria in humans infect large populations worldwide and kill hundreds of thousands of people.

From Washington Post

It includes specimens large, small and deadly, such as the plasmodium parasite that causes malaria.

From Washington Post