Apicomplexan Parasites is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the apicomplexan parasites, including Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora and Babesia. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is an apicomplexan parasite. It excludes flagellate and amoeboid parasites. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Cryptosporidium parvum (Wikipedia)
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Cryptosporidium parvum is one of several species of apicomplexan eukaryotes that cause cryptosporidiosis, a parasitic disease of the mammalian intestinal tract.
Plasmodium - Wikipedia
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Plasmodium is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects such as mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles.
Wikipedia: Toxoplasma gondii
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Toxoplasma gondii () is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis.
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Toxoplasma gondii () is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis.
View the SourceWikipedia: Plasmodium falciparum
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Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans and is the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.
Wikipedia: Babesia
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Babesia, also called Nuttallia, is an apicomplexan parasite that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks.
Wikipedia: Plasmodium vivax
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Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen.
Wikipedia: Cryptosporidium
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Cryptosporidium, sometimes called crypto, is an apicomplexan genus of alveolates that are parasites that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (cryptosporidiosis) that primarily involves watery diarrhea (intestinal cryptosporidiosis), sometimes with a persistent cough (respiratory cryptosporidiosis).
Wikipedia: Cyclospora
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Cyclospora is a genus of apicomplexan parasites.
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