Plasmodium brumpti

Plasmodium brumpti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Protista
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Aconoidasida
Order:	Haemosporida
Family:	Plasmodiidae
Genus:	Plasmodium
Species:	P. brumpti
Binomial name
Plasmodium brumpti

Plasmodium brumpti is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Lacertamoeba.

Like all Plasmodium species P. brumpti has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are reptiles.

Plasmodium brumpti are differentiated from other Plasmodium species by several characteristics. In the blood of the reptile host, parasites in the schizont stage produce 12-22 merozoites. The are elongated and ovular. Both schizonts and gametocytes are fairly large, more than twice the size of the host cell nucleus.

P. brumpti has been found in reptiles in Morelos, Alpoyeca, and Puente de Ixtla, Mexico.

This species was described by Peláez and Perez-Reyes in 1952 in the reptile Sceloporus borridus. It was named after Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt (1877–1951) a French professor of parasitology.

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