Raimondo Feletti

Who was Raimondo Feletti?

Raimondo Feletti was an Italian physician and zoologist.

Feletti worked at a clinic in Catania where a street is named for him "Via Raimondo Feletti".With Giovanni Batista Grassi he published several works on malarial parasites in birds.They described, and introduced the names Haemamoeba vivax and H. malariae for, two of the malaria parasites, soon revising the genus to Plasmodium. In 1889 Grassi and Feletti, as an honor to Laveran, proposed the genus name Laverania . It is now a subgenus of Plasmodium.