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Plasmodium aegyptensis is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.
Like all Plasmodium species it has vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate host is the Egyptian grass rat (Arvicanthis niloticus). The insect vector is not yet known.
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Description
This species was first described in 1975 by Abd-el-Aziz et al. [1]
Geographic occurrence
Clinical features and host pathology
References
- ^ Abd-el-Aziz GA, Landau I, and Miltgen F. (1975) Description of Plasmodium aegyptensis n. sp., presumed parasite of the Muridae Arvicanthis noloticus in Upper Egypt. Ann Parasitol Hum Comp. 50(4):419-424.
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