Plasmodium melanipherum
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Plasmodium melanipherum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.
Like all Plasmodium species P. melanipherum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are mammals.
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[edit] Description
This species was first described by Dionisi in 1899. A subspecies (P. melanipherum monosoma) was later described by Vassal in 1907
[edit] Geographical occurrence
[edit] Clinical features and host pathology
P. melanipherum infects Schreiber's bat (Miniopterus schreibersi).
P. melanipherum monosoma infects the bat Vesperugo abramus.
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