microgametocyte

[¦mī·krō·gə′mēd·ə‚sīt]

(biology)

A cell that gives rise to microgametes.

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A total of 339 P.falciparum thick smears containing 5620 gametocytes were screened for measuring the gametocyte density for microgametocyte (male) and macrogametocyte (female) and the mean sex-ratio was 0.31 i.e., 3.22 female per male.

Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia with chloroquine chemotherapy in persistent malaria in an endemic area of India

(a) Clear, oval to elliptical-shaped fully formed oocysts (black arrow head) and hepatobiliary parenchymal cells (white arrow) from amprolium group at x400, (b) macrogametocytes (white arrow head) and few fully formed oocysts (black arrow head) from sulphachloropyrazine group at x400, and (c) cluster of biliary epithelial cells containing numerous microgametocytes from trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole group (black arrow).

Efficacy of Sulphachloropyrazine, Amprolium Hydrochloride, Trimethoprim-Sulphamethoxazole, and Diclazuril against Experimental and Natural Rabbit Coccidiosis

The microgametocytes were dumbbell-shaped with amoeboid outline and measured 12.45 [+ or -] 2.50 [micro]M x 4.50 [+ or -] 0.78 [micro]M.

Prevalence and diversity of avian haematozoan parasites in wetlands of Bangladesh

Macrogametocytes and microgametocytes were not detected.

Lankesterella poeppigii n. sp. (Apicomplexa, Lankesterellidae) de Bufo poeppigii (Tschudi, 1845) del Peru

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