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Updated: August 22, 2024
The last class, the Sporozoa, or the spore-forming animals, while small in the number of known species, only about three hundred kinds being known, is extremely important. A number of diseases in man and other animals are due to the presence of these Sporozoans, for they are all parasitic. Few if any animals are exempt from their attacks. They even attack other minute Protozoa.
The parasites that cause the malarial fevers are Sporozoans and belong to the genus Plasmodium. Other names such as Hæmamoeba and Laverania have been used for them, but the term Plasmodium is the one now most commonly employed. The three most common species are vivax, malariæ and falciparum, causing respectively the tertian, quartan and remittent fevers.
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