MEDICINE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Plasmodium falciparum
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Vibrio cholera
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HIV
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Detailed explanation-1: -The phylum Apicomplexa contains a group of protozoa causing diseases in humans and livestock. Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria, contains a mitochondrion that is very divergent from that of their hosts.
Detailed explanation-2: -ABSTRACT. Plasmodium species have a single mitochondrion that is essential for their survival and has been successfully targeted by antimalarial drugs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Malaria Parasites. Malaria parasites are micro-organisms that belong to the genus Plasmodium. There are more than 100 species of Plasmodium, which can infect many animal species such as reptiles, birds, and various mammals.
Detailed explanation-4: -The mitochondrial genome of malaria parasites. Malaria parasites possess a mitochondrial genome in the form of circular and/or tandemly repeated linear elements of 6 kb, the smallest in size among eukaryotic cells [58].
Detailed explanation-5: -falciparum, which exhibits minimal redundancy of tRNAs. The mitochondrial genome of Plasmodium is small (about 6 kb) and encodes no tRNAs, so the mitochondrion must import tRNAs21, 22.