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.