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Coccidia

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Coccidia [käk′sid·ē·ə]
(invertebrate zoology)
A subclass of protozoans in the class Telosporea; typically intracellular parasites of epithelial tissue in vertebrates and invertebrates.


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All dairy farms are painted with cryptosporidia and coccidia, but you want to minimize exposure both for calves and the people taking care of the calves," he says.
For both coccidia, we found a high proportion of infections without diarrhea: 67% of cryptosporidiosis and 77% of cyclosporiasis episodes were not associated with diarrhea.
The ARS researchers took spleen cells from mice that had been injected with coccidia and were producing antibodies against the parasites.
 
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