Plasmodium floridense
| Plasmodium floridense | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Protista |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemosporida |
| Family: | Plasmodiidae |
| Genus: | Plasmodium |
| Species: | P. floridense |
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Plasmodium floridense |
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Plasmodium floridense is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Lacertaemoba.
Like all Plasmodium species P. floridense has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are lizards.
This species was described by Thompson and Huff in 1944.
Schizonts are 1.5 -2.0 times the size of the nucleus of an uninfected erythrocyte. They produce 8-24 merozoites.
The gametocytes are of a similar size.
This organism is found in an area stretching continuously from the southern United States to Panama. It is also found in the Caribbean.
It infects lizards of the genera Anolis (Anolis carolinensis,Anolis gundlachiAnolis sabanus,Anolis sagrei) and Sceloporus undulatus.
The prevalence of infection in Anolis sagrei in Florida is high (46%) but the median parasitaemia in infected hosts is low (0.3%).
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