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Plasmodium berghei Vincke and Lips 1948 is the first plasmodium found infective for rats and mice1. Vincke and Lips isolated this parasite from a wild tree-rat Thamnonys and found that it produced a fatal infection in mice and rats.
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Vincke, I. H., and Lips, M., Ann. Soc. Belge de Méa. Trop. (1948).
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ADLER, S., YOELI, M. & ZUCKERMAN, A. Behaviour of Plasmodium berghei in some Rodents. Nature 166, 571 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166571a0
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