plasmodium
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The working group also discovered that the autofluorescent artemisinin-coumarin hybrids are able to destroy a certain drug-resistant malaria pathogen called plasmodium palcifarum.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
The RTS,S vaccine targets the one that is most deadly and most common in Africa: plasmodium falciparum.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2021
It includes specimens large, small and deadly, such as the plasmodium parasite that causes malaria.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2016
Scientists at GlaxoSmithKline began working in 1987 on a vaccine that targeted the most severe of the four strains of malaria, plasmodium falciparum.
From US News ● Aug. 14, 2015
Not until 1791 does anyone write down a particular species as marked by a white plasmodium, and distinguish it from other similar fructifications having similar origin.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
The pulsating blobs of Texas-backyard mystery are plasmodia — multinucleate masses that course the forest until conditions are just right for them to form the colorful fruiting bodies full of spores.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
Neither plant nor animal, these single-cell amoebas feed on bacteria but aggregate when their food source becomes scarce to form glossy, bulbous, shape-shifting multicellular plasmodia that develop fruiting bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells.
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No known chemical kills plasmodia in the form mosquitoes deliver to man.
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This organism is remarkable in one or two ways: it possesses a contractile vacuole; the amoeboid trophozoites tend to form plasmodia; and the spores, of the usual simple type, may apparently divide by binary fission.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various