Plasmodium osmaniae

Short description: Species of single-celled organism

Plasmodium osmaniae

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Clade:  | Diaphoretickes
Clade:  | SAR
Clade:  | Alveolata
Phylum:  | Apicomplexa
Class:  | Aconoidasida
Order:  | Haemospororida
Family:  | Plasmodiidae
Genus:  | Plasmodium
Species:  |

P. osmaniae

Binomial name
Plasmodium osmaniae

Shortt, Rao, Qadri and Abraham, 1961

Plasmodium osmaniae is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.

Like all Plasmodium species P. osmaniae has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are mammals.

## Description

The parasite was first described by Shortt in 1961.[1] It was renamed Plasmodium shortii by Bray in 1963 and still later this species was then reclassified as Plasmodium inui.

## References

1. ↑ Shortt, H.E.; Rao, G.; Qadri, S.S.; Abraham, R. (1961). "Plasmodium osmaniae, a malaria parasite of an Indian monkey Macaca radiata". Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 64: 140–143.

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