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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
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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To the Editor: Coccidian protozoans that belong to the genus Cryptosporidium frequently cause gastrointestinal infection in humans and animals and are distributed worldwide.
parvum is a coccidian enteric pathogen of mammals that causes clinical disease in numerous species, including swine and humans (172).
cayetanensis are, in comparison with those of other coccidian parasites, noninfectious in freshly excreted stool.
 
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