plasmodium

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 may spread very widely over all sorts of objects that come in the way, dry forest leaves and sticks, or the fruit and foliage of living plants.

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

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

We may well wonder: Why did not Laveran simply recognize those sexual forms, and why did he not seek for the period of conjugation in the plasmodia, which were animal micro-organisms?

From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Montessori, Maria