microsporidian

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Noun1.microsporidian - parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells
sporozoan - parasitic spore-forming protozoan
Mycrosporidia, order Mycrosporidia - an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia
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Similarly, siphon muscle microsporidian parasites were generally of low prevalence or absent at all sites.
Temporal and spatial variability of native geoduck (Panopea generosa) endosymbionts in the Pacific Northwest
richteri) and hybrid fire ants in Tennessee and the northern parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, but our research efforts are beginning to shift to other potential groups of agents, especially viruses and microsporidian pathogens (Poinar et al.
Release and establishment of the little decapitating fly Pseudacteon cultellatus (Diptera: Phoridae) on imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Florida
microsporidian myositis was recently reported in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (7).
Disseminated microsporidiosis in an immunosuppressed patient
However, intracellular microsporidian parasites are not in vacuoles; rather, they locate directly in contact with the host cell cytoplasm.
Microsporidian spore/sporoplasm dynactin in spraguea
Mixed vertical and horizontal transmission also occurs for bacterial infections and has been extensively documented in microsporidian parasites of arthropods (Mangin et al.
The evolution of virulence in pathogens with vertical and horizontal transmission
Effects of simultaneous virus and microsporidian infection on larvae of Hyphantria cunea.
Transmission dynamics of a virus in a stage-structured insect population
Ovavesicula popilliae (Andreadis & Hanula) (Microsporida: Ovavesiculidae) is a microsporidian pathogen of the Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newman (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), used as a biological control agent (Cappaert & Smitley 2002).
Evaluating spore count and sporophorous vesicle size in Ovavesicula popilliae (Microsporidia: Ovavesiculidae) in adult Japanese beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
The spore cell of an intracellular microsporidian parasite is a missile which, when activated, explosively discharges an invasion tube.
Cytoplasmic Proteins on the Surface of Discharged Microsporidian Sporoplasms
Vairimorpha invictae Jouvenaz & Ellis (Microsporidia: Burenellidae) is a microsporidian pathogen of Solenopsis fire ants in South America.
The fire ant (hymenoptera: formicidae) pathogen, Vairimorpha invictae (Microsporidia: Burenellidae), not detected in Florida
We report a case of microsporidian myositis caused by Tubulinosema sp.
Tubulinosema sp. microsporidian myositis in immunosuppressed patient
First record of the microsporidian parasite Steinhausia mytilovum in Mytilus sp.
Diseases of pearl oysters and other molluscs: a Western Australian perspective
Microsporidian and fungal diseases of Solenopsis invicta Buren in Brazil.
Host specificity testing of the Solenopsis fire ant (hymenoptera: formicidae) pathogen, Kneallhazia (=Thelohania) solenopsae (microsporidia: thelohaniidae), in Florida
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