protozoan
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Giardia duodenalis is a microscopic protozoan parasite known for causing outbreaks of severe diarrhea.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
One common protozoan disease known to occur in birds, which evolved from feathered dinosaurs, as well as in people is called trichomoniasis, caused by a parasitic protozoan.
From Reuters • Oct. 1, 2022
Though the idea of a mind-altering protozoan transmitted via cats is alarming, it is not necessarily harmful: roughly 30 percent of the human population is infected with the T gondii parasite.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2022
The disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan transmitted by triatomine insects, known as kissing bugs for their vampiric penchant for biting the face and sucking blood.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 9, 2022
These, under high magnification, turn out to be bacteria, living in symbiosis with the spirochetes and the protozoan, probably contributing enzymes that break down the cellulose.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Microbiology - High School
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