a protozoan, parasitic in red blood cells, that infects and is transmitted to other animals by ticks
Examples of 'piroplasm' in a sentence
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The piroplasm was observed on both blood smears and molecular tests.
Maria Regina Lucas da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Scabelo Mattoso, Adson Costa, Mere ErikaSaito, Lygia Tchaicka, Lucia Helena O'Dwyer 2018, 'Rangelia vitalii and Hepatozoon canis coinfection in pampas fox Lycalopex gymnocercusfrom Santa Catarina State, Brazil', Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterináriahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-29612018005005105&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This review intends to collate and summarize current knowledge with respect to piroplasm phylogeny.
Marie Jalovecka, Marie Jalovecka, Marie Jalovecka, Ondrej Hajdusek, Daniel Sojka,Petr Kopacek, Laurence Malandrin 2018, 'The Complexity of Piroplasms Life Cycles', Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00248/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Therefore, in the present study, the antibabesial effect of this compound was evaluated on the growth of piroplasm parasites.
Shimaa Abd El-Salam El-Sayed, Mohamed Abdo Rizk, Naoaki Yokoyama, Ikuo Igarashi 2019, 'Evaluation of the in vitro and in vivo inhibitory effect of thymoquinone on piroplasmparasites', Parasites & Vectorshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-019-3296-z. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Six predicted surface protein targets were confirmed to be expressed during the piroplasm phase of the parasite by mass spectrometry.
Daniel R. Bogema, Melinda L. Micallef, Michael Liu, Matthew P. Padula, Steven P. Djordjevic,Aaron E. Darling, Cheryl Jenkins 2018, 'Analysis of Theileria orientalis draft genome sequences reveals potential species-leveldivergence of the Ikeda, Chitose and Buffeli genotypes', BMC Genomicshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4701-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)