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Eukaryota > Alveolata > Apicomplexa > Piroplasmia

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Piroplasmia  

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Note

  • infection: coordinate IM with PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS (IM); coordinate with specific protozoan terms (ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN, etc) if pertinent; do not confuse with order PIROPLASMIDA

Scope note

  • A subclass of heteroxenous parasitic protozoa usually transmitted by ticks. Its organisms are rod-shaped or amoeboid with conoid, oocysts, spores, and pseudocysts absent. Locomotion is by body flexion, gliding, or, in sexual stages, by large axopodium-like organelles.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016791

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