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Date1898
AuthorRoss
ContributionReported (per Manson) transmission of bird malaria from mosquito to bird and bird to mosquito.
ReferenceFoster
NotesRonald Ross. A landmark in the discovery of disease transmission by arthropod vector. Organism was Protesoma, a hemoflagellate later namedPlasmodium. There is an extensive literature on the discovery of the transmission of Plasmodium, Proteosoma, Halteridium.
CategoryMiscellany
Pathogen ClassProtozoa

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