Plasmodium vinckei

Plasmodium vinckei
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Infrakingdom: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. vinckei
Binomial name
Plasmodium vinckei
Rodhain, 1952

Plasmodium vinckei is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. vinckei has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are rodents.

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1952 by Rodhain. Several subspecies have been described since.[1][2]

Subspecies

  • P. v. brucechwatti
  • P. v. chabaudi
  • P. v. lentum
  • P. v. petteri
  • P. v. vinckei

Distribution

This species is found in Central Africa including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.

Vectors

  • Anopheles cinctus
  • Anopheles dureni

References

  1. Carter, R. and Walliker, D. 1975: New observations on the malaria parasites of rodents of the Central African Republic - Plasmodium vinckei petteri subsp. nov. and Plasmodium chabaudi Landau, 1965. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol., 69: 187-196
  2. Killick-Kendrick, R. 1975: Parasitic protozoa of the blood of rodents. V. Plasmodium vinckei brucechwatti subsp. nov. A malaria parasite of the thicket-rat, Thamnomys rutilans in Nigeria. Ann. Parasitol. Humaine et Comparée 50: 251-264

Further reading

Siddiqui, Arif J.; Bhardwaj, Jyoti; Puri, Sunil K. (April 2012). "mRNA expression of cytokines and its impact on outcomes after infection with lethal and nonlethal Plasmodium vinckei parasites". Parasitology Research. 110 (4): 1517–1524. doi:10.1007/s00436-011-2656-1. PMID 21965043.


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