-
intracellular parasites, they must live and
reproduce within an
animal cell.
Coccidian parasites infect the
intestinal tracts of animals, and are the largest...
- four
groups —
coccidians, gregarines,
haemosporidians (or haematozoans,
including in
addition piroplasms), and marosporidians. The
coccidians and haematozoans...
-
rapid growth and replication.
Tachyzoites are the
motile forms of
those coccidians which form
tissue pseudocysts, such as
Toxoplasma and Sarcocystis. Typically...
-
Cyclospora cayetanensis is a
coccidian parasite that
causes a
diarrheal disease called cyclosporiasis in
humans and
possibly in
other primates. Originally...
-
Coccidiosis is a
parasitic disease of the
intestinal tract of
animals caused by
coccidian protozoa. The
disease spreads from one
animal to
another by
contact with...
- flies.
Chicks sometimes suffer from
intestinal tract infections caused by
coccidian protozoa, and the
nematode Trichostrongylus tenuis infects the emu as...
- captive-bred
foxes in fur farms,
while 20 are
known in the wild.
Several coccidian species of the
genera Isospora and
Eimeria are also
known to
infect them...
- many species; it is
unclear whether they are
parasitic or endosymbionts.
Coccidians in the
genus Aggregata living in the gut
cause severe disease to the host...
- McAllister, C. T.; Duszynski, D. W.; Roberts, D. T. (2014). "A New
Coccidian (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from Galápagos Tortoise,
Chelonoidis sp. (Testudines:...
- 1128/CMR.05013-11. PMC 3346298. PMID 22491772. Markus, MB (1987). "Terms for
coccidian merozoites".
Annals of
Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 81 (4): 463...
