Plasmodium brasilianum
| Plasmodium brasilianum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemospororida |
| Family: | Plasmodiidae |
| Genus: | Plasmodium |
| Species: | P. brasilianum
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| Binomial name | |
| Plasmodium brasilianum (Gonder and Von Berenberg-Gossler, 1908)
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Plasmodium brasilianum is a parasite that infects many species of platyrrhine monkeys in South and Central America.[1]
Description
Sequence analysis of circumsporozoite protein, merozoite surface protein-1, and small subunit ribosomal RNA of P. malariae and P. brasilianum showed that the two parasites were very closely related.18S rRNA sequences, it has been proposed that P. brasilianum be subsumed under the name P. malariae.
Distribution
Plasmodium brasilianum naturally infects species of primates from all New World monkey families from a large geographic area in Central and South America.[2] The parasite has been found in Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and French Guiana.[3][4]
Hosts
Natural infection of P. brasilianum has been found in
Ateles geoffroyi geoffroyi) from Panama carrying P. brasilianum, have been shown to transmit the parasite through biting to five human volunteers.[1] In addition to humans, P. brasilianum has been transmissible experimentally to marmosets.[5]
