• Intracellular parasites are microparasites that are capable of growing and reproducing inside the cells of a host. They are also called intracellular...
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  • them as obligate intracellular parasites. Among the Vespidae family, Vespula austriaca is an example of an obligate reproductive parasite; its common host...
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    Parasitism (redirect from Macro-parasite)
    Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and...
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    Listeria is a genus of bacteria that acts as an intracellular parasite in mammals. As of 2024, 28 species have been identified. The genus is named in honour...
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    Plasmodium (redirect from Malarial parasite)
    person to person. Some of subspecies of Plasmodium are obligate intracellular parasites. The genus Plasmodium consists of all eukaryotes in the phylum...
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    grow and reproduce only intracellularly (obligate intracellular parasites). Besides bacteria, there are other kinds of intracellular microorganisms. Examples...
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  • Holosporaceae are a family of bacteria. The member Holospora is an intracellular parasite found in the unicellular protozoa Paramecium. Draft genome sequences...
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    Scrub typhus or bush typhus is a form of typhus caused by the intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi, a Gram-negative α-proteobacterium of family...
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    non-spore-forming, Gram-negative bacterium. L. pneumophila is a intracellular parasite that preferentially infects soil amoebae and freshwater protozoa...
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    acid-fast, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacterium and an obligate intracellular parasite, which means, unlike its relative Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it...
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    Leishmania donovani (category Parasites of humans)
    Leishmania donovani is a species of intracellular parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania, a group of haemoflagellate kinetoplastids that cause the...
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    single-celled obligate intracellular parasites belonging to the apicomplexan class Conoidasida. As obligate intracellular parasites, they must live and reproduce...
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    Toxoplasmosis (category Mind-altering parasites)
    and mice. Sabin and Olitsky showed that T. gondii was an obligate intracellular parasite and that mice fed T. gondii-contaminated tissue also contracted...
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    It is the only genus in the family Bartonellaceae. Facultative intracellular parasites, Bartonella species can infect healthy people, but are considered...
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  • Obligate intracellular parasite, a parasitic microorganism that cannot reproduce without entering a suitable host cell Obligate parasite, a parasite that...
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    Apicomplexans, a group of intracellular parasites, have life cycle stages that allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed...
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    internal parasites of invertebrates (as M. agilis of the reproductive system of earthworms). Monocystis lives as an intracellular parasite in its young...
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    transition from a free-living to an obligate intracellular lifestyle. During this process the future parasite subjected to an environment rich of metabolite...
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  • double-stranded DNA virus in the family Myoviridae. Phage T4 is an obligate intracellular parasite that reproduces within the host bacterial cell and its progeny are...
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    Trichinella is the smallest human nematode parasite, yet it is also the largest of all intracellular parasites. Oral ingestion of cyst- or larvae-contaminated...
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    initiation factor-2α promotes the extracellular survival of obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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    aeruginosa, Burkholderia cenocepacia, and Mycobacterium avium. Obligate intracellular parasites (e.g. Chlamydophila, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia) are only able to grow...
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    question as well as where it resides in the host body. For example, intracellular parasites such as the protozoan genus Plasmodium which causes Malaria in...
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    TA; Nakjang, S; et al. (Oct 2012). "The genome of the obligate intracellular parasite Trachipleistophora hominis: New insights into microsporidian genome...
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    PMID 37988341. Wikidata Q123558544. Sibley, L. D. (2004-04-09). "Intracellular Parasite Invasion Strategies". Science. 304 (5668): 248–253. Bibcode:2004Sci...
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    cause disease in humans, such as Rickettsia, which are obligate intracellular parasites able to grow and reproduce only within the cells of other organisms...
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  • rod-shaped (coccobacilli) bacteria. They function as facultative intracellular parasites, causing chronic disease, which usually persists for life. Four...
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    gave a morphological description of the parasite. Polypodium was long considered a unique intracellular parasite among cnidarians. Its hosts include 14...
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    complex nutritional requirements. Viruses, for example, are obligate intracellular parasites and require a growth medium containing living cells. The most common...
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    using Koch's postulates, including viruses (which are obligate intracellular parasites) and asymptomatic carriers. They have largely been supplanted by...
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