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Apicomplexa

Categorical breakdown of terms falling inder the category of Apicomplexa. Sub categories will become more specific in nature to the terms listed for Apicomplexa.

Sub-Categories

• Coccidia
  • Eimeriida
    • Cryptosporidiidae
      • Cryptosporidium
        • Cryptosporidium parvum
    • Eimeriidae
      • Cyclospora
      • Eimeria
        • Eimeria tenella
      • Isospora
    • Sarcocystidae
      • Neospora
      • Sarcocystis
      • Toxoplasma
  • Eucoccidiida
• Haemosporida
  • Plasmodium
    • Plasmodium berghei
    • Plasmodium chabaudi
    • Plasmodium cynomolgi
    • Plasmodium falciparum
    • Plasmodium gallinaceum
    • Plasmodium knowlesi
    • Plasmodium malariae
    • Plasmodium ovale
    • Plasmodium vivax
    • Plasmodium yoelii
• Piroplasmia
  • Piroplasmida
    • Babesia
      • Babesia bovis
      • Babesia microti
    • Theileria
      • Theileria annulata
      • Theileria parva

Terms

Apicomplexa - A phylum of unicellular parasitic EUKARYOTES characterized by the presence of complex apical organel...

Babesia - A genus of tick-borne protozoan parasites that infests the red blood cells of mammals, including hum...

Babesia bovis - A species of protozoa that is a cause of bovine babesiosis. Ticks of the genera Boophilus, Rhipiceph...

Babesia microti - A species of protozoa infecting humans via the intermediate tick vector IXODES scapularis. The other...

Coccidia - A subclass of protozoans commonly parasitic in the epithelial cells of the intestinal tract but also...

Cryptosporidiidae - A family of parasitic organisms in the order EIMERIIDA. CRYPTOSPORIDIUM is the most important genus....

Cryptosporidium - A genus of coccidian parasites of the family CRYPTOSPORIDIIDAE, found in the intestinal epithelium o...

Cryptosporidium parvum - A species of parasitic protozoa that infects humans and most domestic mammals. Its oocysts measure f...

Cyclospora - A genus of coccidian parasites in the family EIMERIIDAE. Cyclospora cayetanensis is pathogenic in hu...

Eimeria - A genus of protozoan parasites of the subclass COCCIDIA. Various species are parasitic in the epithe...

Eimeria tenella - A species of coccidian protozoa that mainly infects domestic poultry....

Eimeriida - An order of parasitic organisms in the class COCCIDIA. Families include CRYPTOSPORIDIIDAE; EIMERIIDA...

Eimeriidae - A large family of parasites in the order EIMERIIDA. They cause COCCIDIOSIS in a number of vertebrate...

Eucoccidiida - An order of parasitic protozoa found in blood cells and epithelial cells of vertebrates and inverteb...

Haemosporida - An order of heteroxenous protozoa in which the macrogamete and microgamont develop independently. A ...

Isospora - A genus of protozoan parasites found in the intestines of birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, ...

Neospora - A genus of protozoan parasites of the subclass COCCIDIA. Its species are parasitic in dogs, cattle, ...

Piroplasmia - A subclass of heteroxenous parasitic protozoa usually transmitted by ticks. Its organisms are rod-sh...

Piroplasmida - An order of protozoa comprising heteroxenous tick-borne blood parasites. Representative genera inclu...

Plasmodium - A genus of protozoa that comprise the malaria parasites of mammals. Four species infect humans (alth...

Plasmodium berghei - A protozoan parasite of rodents transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles dureni....

Plasmodium chabaudi - A protozoan parasite of rodents transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles stephensi....

Plasmodium cynomolgi - A protozoan parasite that occurs naturally in the macaque. It is similar to PLASMODIUM VIVAX and pro...

Plasmodium falciparum - A species of protozoa that is the causal agent of falciparum malaria (MALARIA, FALCIPARUM). It is mo...

Plasmodium gallinaceum - A protozoan parasite that causes avian malaria (MALARIA, AVIAN), primarily in chickens, and is trans...

Plasmodium knowlesi - A protozoan parasite from Southeast Asia that causes monkey malaria. It is naturally acquired by man...

Plasmodium malariae - A protozoan parasite that occurs primarily in subtropical and temperate areas. It is the causal agen...

Plasmodium ovale - A species of protozoan parasite causing MALARIA. It is the rarest of the four species of PLASMODIUM ...

Plasmodium vivax - A protozoan parasite that causes vivax malaria (MALARIA, VIVAX). This species is found almost everyw...

Plasmodium yoelii - A species of PLASMODIUM causing malaria in rodents....

Sarcocystidae - A family of parasitic organisms in the order EIMERIIDAE. They form tissue-cysts in their intermediat...

Sarcocystis - A genus of protozoa found in reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans. This heteroxenous paras...

Theileria - A genus of tick-borne protozoa parasitic in the lymphocytes, erythrocytes, and endothelial cells of ...

Theileria annulata - A protozoan parasite causing tropical theileriasis in cattle. It is transmitted by ticks of the Hyal...

Theileria parva - A protozoan parasite that is the etiologic agent of East Coast fever (THEILERIASIS). Transmission is...

Toxoplasma - A genus of protozoa parasitic to birds and mammals. T. gondii is one of the most common infectious p...

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