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Plasmodium
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Plasmodium, commonly kent as the malaria parasite, is a lairge genus o parasitic protozoa. As wi some other genera o cleenically important microorganisms, the genus name an aa yields a common noun; thus species o the genus are kent as plasmodia. Infection wi plasmodia is kent as malaria, a deadly disease widespread in the tropics.
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