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Plasmodium vivax
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Research
11,337 papers- Plasmodium vivax - How hidden reservoirs hinder global malaria elimination.Parasitology international · 2022
- Plasmodium vivax Reticulocyte Binding Proteins for invasion into reticulocytes.Cellular microbiology · 2020
- Plasmodium vivax in the Era of the Shrinking P. falciparum Map.Trends in parasitology · 2020
- Evolutionary history of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium simium in the Americas.Malaria journal · 2022
- Plasmodium vivax vaccine research - we've only just begun.International journal for parasitology · 2017
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Encyclopedic overview
Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen. This parasite is the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. Although it is less virulent than Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of the five human malaria parasites, P. vivax malaria infections can lead to severe disease and death, often due to splenomegaly (a pathologically enlarged spleen). P. vivax is carried by the female Anopheles mosquito; the males do not bite.
Biology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plasmodium vivax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.