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Descriptor English: Piroplasmia
Descriptor Spanish: Piroplasmia
Descriptor Piroplasmia
Scope note: Subclase de protozoos parásitos heterogéneos transmitidos usualmente por garrapatas. Estos organismos tienen forma bacilar o forma ameboide con ausencia de conoide, ooquistes, esporas y seudoquistes. La locomoción se realiza por flexión del cuerpo, deslizamiento o, en las etapas sexuales, por organelos semejantes a grandes axopodios.
Descriptor Portuguese: Piroplásmios
Descriptor French: Piroplasmia
Entry term(s): Piroplasmias
Tree number(s): B01.043.075.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016791
Scope note: A subclass of heteroxenous parasitic protozoa usually transmitted by ticks. Its organisms are rod-shaped or amoeboid with conoid, oocysts, spores, and pseudocysts absent. Locomotion is by body flexion, gliding, or, in sexual stages, by large axopodium-like organelles.
Annotation: infection: coordinate IM with PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS (IM); coordinate with specific protozoan terms (ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN, etc) if pertinent; do not confuse with order PIROPLASMIDA
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
DeCS ID: 29891
Unique ID: D016791
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Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/05/02
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Piroplasmia - Preferred
Concept UI M0025584
Scope note A subclass of heteroxenous parasitic protozoa usually transmitted by ticks. Its organisms are rod-shaped or amoeboid with conoid, oocysts, spores, and pseudocysts absent. Locomotion is by body flexion, gliding, or, in sexual stages, by large axopodium-like organelles.
Preferred term Piroplasmia
Entry term(s) Piroplasmias



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