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Eukaryota > Alveolata > Apicomplexa > Piroplasmia

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Piroplasmia  

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  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-KJG58L07-H

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