Book chapter
Successful cultivation of cryptosporidium reveals previously undescribed gregarine-like developmental stages
Cryptosporidium: From Molecules to Disease
Elsevier B.V.
2003
Abstract
This chapter presents an overview on the successful cultivation of Cryptosporidium. The successful cultivation reveals previously undescribed gregarine-like developmental stage. s. Cryptosporidium shows peculiarities that separate it from other coccidia, such as two morphofunctional oocysts, a multi-membranous feeder organelle, and endogenous development in the microvilli of epithelial surfaces. Cryptosporidium has a closer affinity with the gregarines than with the coccidian. This chapter presents a study in which at least two developmental stages in Cryptosporidium are found to be similar to those of some gregarines. These are an extracellular trophozoite/gamont-like stage and a gametocyst-like stage. Both stages were detected in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, surface association of gamont-like stages as well as oocyst formation by budding from gametocyst stages was observed in this study.
Details
- Title
- Successful cultivation of cryptosporidium reveals previously undescribed gregarine-like developmental stages
- Authors/Creators
- N. Hijjawi (Author/Creator)B.P. Meloni (Author/Creator)U.M. Morgan (Author/Creator)R.C.A. Thompson (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- R.C.A. Thompson (Editor)A. Armson (Editor)U. Morgan (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Cryptosporidium: From Molecules to Disease
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V.; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Identifiers
- 991005540377507891
- Copyright
- © 2003 Elsevier B.V.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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