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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.
[edit] Description
The parasite was first described by Short in 1961. [1] It was renamed Plasmodium shortii by Bray in 1963 and still later this species was then reclassified as Plasmodium inui.
[edit] Geographical occurrence
[edit] Clinical features and host pathology
[edit] References
- ^ Shortt, H. E., Rao, G., Oadri, S. S., and Abraham, R. (1961) Plasmodium osmaniae, a malaria parasite of an Indian monkey Macaca radiata. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 64: 140 - 143
