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Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium falciparum is a protozean parasite, one of the four species of Plasmodium that cause malaria. It is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. P. falciparum is the most dangerous of the four as P. falciparum malaria has the highest rates of complications and mortality.

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