piroplasma
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pirum (“pear”) + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “image, formation”)
Noun
piroplasma (plural piroplasmas or piroplasmata)
- (epidemiology, microbiology) Babesia, a genus of hematozoa that invades the red blood cells of humans and domesticated animals such as dogs and sheep
- 1895, Entomological Pamphlets: Slingerland Collection.[2]:
- Any of many other parasitic protozoa related to Babesia in order Piroplasmida
- 2011, Jan Votýpka, Piroplasmorida, Tree of Life Web Project:[1]
- Present systematics of piroplasms is based almost entirely upon criteria derived from taxonomic interpretation of a combination of morphology of the intraerythrocytic stages, host specificity, vector, mode of pathogenesis and pathogenicity, cross-immunity, frequency of schizonts and piroplasms, and spatial distribution
References
- ^ Votýpka, Jan. 2011. Piroplasmorida Wenyon 1926. Version 18 May 2011 (under construction). [1] in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
Further reading
- “piroplasma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
piroplasma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia