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Malaria parasite

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1.Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (syn. Hæmatozoön) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles (which see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria.
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Noun1.Malaria parasitemalaria parasite - parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
Plasmodium vivax, plasmodium
sporozoan - parasitic spore-forming protozoan
genus Plasmodium - type genus of the family Plasmodiidae


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