Significats de intracellular parasites en anglès

Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites, existing in a wide variety of animal hosts.

Viruses are intracellular parasites whose reproduction relies on factors provided by the host.

As obligate intracellular parasites, virus reproduction requires host cell functions.

Acquired cell-mediated immunity to intracellular parasites like mycobacteria is dependent on antigen-specific T lymphocytes.

However, the mechanisms used by intracellular parasites to induce internalization into host cells have not been defined.

Microsporidia are a diverse group of highly derived fungal relatives that are intracellular parasites of many animals.

Amastigotes can be identified by optical microscopy, however, the differential diagnosis with cellular debris or other intracellular parasites is necessary.

The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii provides a model system for studying invasion by intracellular parasites belonging to the phylum Apicomplexa.

The ability to enter into (invade) mammalian cells is an essential virulence determinant of many pathogenic bacteria and intracellular parasites.

Microsporidia are intracellular parasites of humans and other animals, which evolved highly specialized morphological structures, but also extreme physiologic and genomic simplification.

These data suggest that some strains are in genomic stasis, as expected for intracellular parasites, while others emerge in the same area with DNA polymorphism.