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- An amastigote is a protist cell that does not have visible external flagella or cilia. The term is used mainly to describe an intracellular phase in the...
- amastigotes. Granulocytes selectively kill the promastigotes by oxidative mechanism, while amastigotes are resistant. Then the surviving amastigotes undergo...
- example, the amastigote (prefix "a-", meaning no flagellum) form is also known as the leishmanial form as all Leishmania have an amastigote life cycle stage...
- host. When macrophages phagocytize the parasite, it transitions into its amastigote form, rapidly dividing to break the host cell open and infect other mononuclear...
- called an amastigote, which is round, non-motile, and only 3–7 micrometers in diameter. Inside the stomach of the sandfly, the amastigotes quickly transform...
- invertebrate host. Intracellular lifecycle stages are normally found in the amastigote form. The trypomastigote morphology is unique to species in the genus...
- stage of their life cycle, they exist in two structural variants, as: The amastigote form is found in the mononuclear phagocytes and circulatory systems of...
- flagellum for motility, and the attached, immotile, amastigote form in the mosquito gut. Amastigotes excreted in the faeces contaminate the mosquito habitat;...
- puncture wound are phagocytized by macrophages, and transform into amastigotes. Amastigotes multiply in infected cells and affect different tissues, depending...
- invertebrate hosts. At different points in its life-cycle, it p****es through amastigote, promastigote, and epimastigote phases; the last is particularly characteristic...