Revision for “COCCIDIA: THE PHYLUM APICOMPLEXAN” created on February 19, 2020 @ 11:51:18
| Title | COCCIDIA: THE PHYLUM APICOMPLEXAN |
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| Content | <p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">All members of this Phylum are obligatory parasites. The phylum contains the coccidial parasites and important blood parasites of cats. Two of the parasites </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Toxoplasma </i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>gondii</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Cryptosporidium </i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>parvum</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> are of public health importance because they are zoonotic agents. The phylum obtains its name from the assemblage of organelles that are present in the anterior end of invasive stages and collectively form the apical complex (Current et al., 1990). The apical complex is involved in the entrance of parasites in to host cells. Cats are definitive hosts for several apicomplexan parasites including the genera </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Isospora</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Toxoplasma</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Hammondia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Besnoitia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Sarcocystis</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Cryptosporidium</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Babesia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, and </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Theileria</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> (syn. Cytauxzoan). </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Isospora</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Cryptosporidium</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> are coccidial parasites that can be associated with diarrhea. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Toxoplasma</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Hammondia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Besnoitia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">, and </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Sarcocystis</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> are coccidial parasites that have a two-host life cycle and use cats as definitive hosts. Intestinal infections in cats with these species are usually asymptomatic. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Babesia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><i>Theileria</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> species are tick-transmitted blood parasites that can cause anemia and death.</span></span></span></p> |
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