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

Gates wants to see the plasmodium at Appomattox.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2015

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

In ordinary circumstances the abundant free nuclei demonstrable in the plasmodium afford the only evidence of cellular organization.

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

Malaria is fought by fighting mosquitoes or by interrupting the plasmodia life-cycle at some point.

From Time Magazine Archive

First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the germinating spores of the fungi, myxomycetes, rupture their walls and become masses of naked protoplasm, they are known as plasmodia.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various