Plasmodium inui

Plasmodium inui
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Infrakingdom:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Aconoidasida
Order:	Haemospororida
Family:	Plasmodiidae
Genus:	Plasmodium
Species:	P. inui
Binomial name
	Plasmodium inui; Halberstaedter and von Prowazek, 1907

Plasmodium inui is a species of parasite, one of the species of simian Plasmodium that cause malaria in Old World monkeys.

History[]

This species was described in 1907 by Halberstaedter and von Prowazek.

This species is found in China^[1] and also the Celebes, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

It is closely related to other 'quartan' Plasmodium species, including Plasmodium coatneyi, Plasmodium cynomolgi, , Plasmodium fieldi, , and Plasmodium vivax (which is a 'tertian' Plasmodium species).^[2] ^[3]

The life cycle is typical of a species of the genus Plasmodium.

It has a 72-hour (or quartan) periodicity.

Salivary gland sporozoites appear in Anopheles dirus 13 days post feeding.

The prepatent period in the vertebrate host is 8 days.

^ Huang Y, Yang Z, Putaporntip C, Miao M, Wei H, Zou C, Jongwutiwes S, Cui L. (2010) Isolation and identification of a South China strain of Plasmodium inui from Macaca fascicularis. Vet Parasitol
^ Mitsui H, Arisue N, Sakihama N, et al. (January 2010). "Phylogeny of Asian primate malaria parasites inferred from apicoplast genome-encoded genes with special emphasis on the positions of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium fragile". Gene. 450 (1–2): 32–8. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2009.10.001. PMID 19818838.
^ Kissinger JC, Collins WE, Li J, McCutchan TF (April 1998). "Plasmodium inui is not closely related to other quartan Plasmodium species". J. Parasitol. 84 (2): 278–82. doi:10.2307/3284482. JSTOR 3284482. PMID 9576499.