(Solved): The Plasmodium species that is potentially the most deadly is Plasmodium falciparum. This is mostly ...

The Plasmodium species that is potentially the most deadly is Plasmodium falciparum. This is mostly because it has only recently started infecting humans, who have no immune defense against it can infect any red blood cell, raising the parasitemia to very high levels, and it can block capillaries only infects liver cells, causing capillary damage that leads to liver failure and death