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Plasmodium tejerai

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Plasmodium tejerai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. tejerai
Binomial name
Plasmodium tejerai
Gabaldon and Ulloa, 1977

Plasmodium tejerai is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Haemamoeba.

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

Taxonomy

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The parasite was first described by Gabaldon and Ulloa in 1977.

Distribution

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This parasite is found in Brazil and Venezuela.

Vectors

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Not known.

Clinical features and host pathology

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This organism infects the domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the South American penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus).[1]

Morphologically this parasite resembles Plasmodium relictum closely. In the penguin infection may be fatal with splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, hydropericardium and pulmonary oedema.

References

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  1. ^ Silveira, Patricia; Belo, Nayara O; Lacorte, Gustavo A; Kolesnikovas, Cristiane K.M; Vanstreels, Ralph E.T; Steindel, Mário; Catão-Dias, José Luiz; Valkiūnas, Gediminas; Braga, Érika M (2013). "Parasitological and new molecular-phylogenetic characterization of the malaria parasite Plasmodium tejerai in South American penguins". Parasitology International. 62 (2): 165–71. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2012.12.004. PMID 23269202.