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Plasmodium knowlesi

species of parasitic protist that can cause malaria
Taxon taxon Q241594

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
taxon, parasite[2]
Short name
P. knowlesi[7]
Has host
southern pig-tailed macaque, crab-eating macaque, Anopheles[8][9][10]
Named after
Robert Knowles[4]
Parent taxon
Plasmodium[5]
Taxon name
Plasmodium knowlesi[6]
Taxon rank
species[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en P. knowlesi en Plasmodium knowlesi ar بلازموديوم نولسي ar بلسمود نولسي ar متصورة نولسية he פלסמודיום נואלסי hi प्लास्मोडियम नाउलेसी zh 猴瘧原蟲 zh 猴瘧蟲 zh 諾氏瘧原蟲
🔖 Identifiers · 19
OpenAlex ID
C2780559468
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Plasmodium knowlesi smears IDC.png ↗
AGROVOC ID
c_31218
BioLib taxon ID
630887
DeCS ID
29886
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Plasmodium-knowlesi
Freebase ID
/m/07dwl9
GenBank assembly accession number
GCA_002140095.1, GCA_900162085.1, GCA_023845545.1, GCA_023845515.1
INaturalist taxon ID
1520334
MeSH descriptor ID
D016790
MeSH tree code
B01.043.075.380.611.610
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780559468
Show all 19 identifiers +7
NALT ID
58717
NCBI taxonomy ID
5850
Open Tree of Life ID
352298
Sequenced genome URL
protists.ensembl.org, protists.ensembl.org, protists.ensembl.org
UMLS CUI
C0085324
UNII
0LFT87M341
WikiProjectMed ID
Plasmodium knowlesi

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🔗 Connections
Has host 3
Anopheles, crab-eating macaque, southern pig-tailed macaque
Instance of 2
taxon, parasite
Taxon rank 1
species
← FactGrid item ID 1
Florida City
← Has cause 1
malaria
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Summary

Plasmodium knowlesi is a taxon[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . A critical review of the literature relating to the identification of the malarial parasites recorded from monkeys of the families Cercopithecidae and Colobidae. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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