Plasmodium brumpti

Plasmodium brumpti is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Sauramoeba.

Like all Plasmodium species P. brumpti has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are reptiles.

Description
This species was described by Peláez and Perez-Reyes in 1952.

It was named after Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt (1877-1951) a French professor of parasitology.

The schizonts may be lateral (elongated) or polar (more rounded) in the erythrocyte and produce 15-20 merozoites.

The gametocytes may be lateral (elongated) or polar (spherical to reniform).

The larger schizonts and mature gametocytes cause enlargement of the erythrocyte.