Plasmodium falciparum

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Etymology[edit]

See Plasmodium and falciparum

Proper noun[edit]

Plasmodium falciparum n

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Plasmodiidae – a protist, transmitted by mosquitos of genus Anopheles, that causes most cases of malaria.

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