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Cystoisospora

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Isospora

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Classification

Genus Cystoisospora was proposed as a new member of the phylum Apicomplexa, class Coccidia, order Eimeriida, and family Sarcocystidae in 1977 by Dr. J. K. Frenkel to contain the mammalian coccidia in the genus Isospora that had recently been found in 1972 to make monozoic tissue cysts (cysts that contain a single asexual infective stage called a zoite) in the tissues of experimentally infected rodents (paratenic hosts). The sporulated oocysts of this genus contain two sporocysts that do not contain a Stieda body, and each sporocyst encloses four sporozoites consistent with other heteroxenous tissue cyst-forming coccidia Toxoplasma, Hammondia, Neospora, Besnoitia, Frenkelia, and Sarcocystis present in this family. The type species is C. felis.

Important Species

Coccidial parasites in the genus Cystoisospora (Table 1) are important agents of intestinal disease in humans (C. belli), neonatal pigs (C. suis), young cats (C....

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References

  • Dubey JP (1979) Life cycle of Isospora rivolta (Grassi, 1879) in cats and mice. J Protozool 26:433–443

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  • Dubey JP, Lindsay DS, Lappin ML (2009) Toxoplasmosis and other intestinal coccidial infections in cats and dogs. In: Small animal parasites. Veterinary clinics of North America: small animal practice. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, pp 1010–1034

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  • Lindsay DS, Upton SJ, Weiss LM (2011) Isospora, Cyclospora, and Sarcocystis. In: Versalovic J, Carroll KC, Funke G, Jorgensen JH, Landry ML, Warnock DW (eds) Manual of clinical microbiology, vol 2, 10th edn. ASM Press, Washington, DC, pp 2172–2179

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Further Reading

  • Frenkel JK (1977) Besnoitia wallacei of cats and rodents: with a reclassification of other cyst-forming isosporid coccidia. J Parasitol 63:611–628

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  1. Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine, 205 Duck Pond Drive, 24061, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    David S. Lindsay

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  1. Institute of Zoomorphology and Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Heinz Mehlhorn

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Lindsay, D.S. (2015). Cystoisospora . In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_798-2

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