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Coccidia

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coc·cid·i·um  (kk-sd-m)
n. pl. coc·cid·i·a (--)
Any of various parasitic protozoans belonging to the order Coccidia and responsible for a disease of the alimentary canal in livestock, fowl, and humans.
[New Latin Coccidium, former genus name : coccus + -idium, diminutive suff. (from Greek -idion).]
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Noun1.Coccidia - an order in the subclass Telosporidia
order Coccidia
animal order - the order of animals
subclass Telosporidia, Telosporidia - parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites
Eimeriidae, family Eimeriidae - a family of protoctist in the order Coccidia
coccidium, eimeria - parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates


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All dairy farms are painted with cryptosporidia and coccidia, but you want to minimize exposure both for calves and the people taking care of the calves," he says.
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For both coccidia, we found a high proportion of infections without diarrhea: 67% of cryptosporidiosis and 77% of cyclosporiasis episodes were not associated with diarrhea.
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The ARS researchers took spleen cells from mice that had been injected with coccidia and were producing antibodies against the parasites.
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