- acts to
protect it
during transfer to new hosts.
Organisms that
create oocysts include Eimeria, Isospora, Cryptosporidium, and Toxoplasma. Life cycle...
-
contained oocysts—at
least 17
species of
felids shed
oocysts, but no non-felid has been
shown to
allow T. gondii ****ual
reproduction (leading to
oocyst shedding)...
- the
unsporulated oocysts undergo meiosis upon
contact with
oxygen and moisture. This
process is
known as
sporulation and the
oocysts take approximately...
- cats are not
actively shedding oocysts,
since they get
infected in the
first six
months of
their life, when they shed
oocysts for a
short period of time (1–2...
- The thick-walled
oocysts are
excreted into the environment. The
oocysts are
mature and
infective upon
being excreted. The
oocysts are
ovoid or spherical...
-
Microscopic demonstration of the
large typically shaped oocysts is the
basis for diagnosis.
Because the
oocysts may be p****ed in
small amounts and intermittently...
-
ingestion of
sporulated oocysts transmitted by the faecal-oral route. In
healthy human hosts, the
median infective dose is 132
oocysts. The
general C. parvum...
- stages: meronts,
gamonts and
oocysts. They
reproduce within the
intestinal epithelial cells. The
Cryptosporidium spore phase (
oocyst) can
survive for lengthy...
-
infect vertebrates.
Infected animals spread spores called oocysts in
their stool. The
oocysts mature,
called sporulation. When
another animal p****es over...
- ohioensis,
Cystoisospora neorivolta, and
Cystoisospora burrowsi. C.
Canis oocysts are
larger in size
compared to the
other three and the
other three are...
