Contains

• leucocytozoan

  Parasitic in birds.

• piroplasm

  Minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases...

• sarcosporidian

  Parasite of the muscles of vertebrates.

• haplosporidian

  Parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance.

• actinomyxidian

  Parasites of worms.

• microsporidian

  Parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells.

• myxosporidian

  Mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens.

• sporozoite

  One of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life...

• trophozoite

  A sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle.

• merozoite

  A cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cy...

• coccidium

  Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates.

• gregarine

  Vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates.

• haemosporidian

  Minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates...

• plasmodium

  Parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.

• haemoproteid

  Related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds.