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Open AccessMorphological and molecular characterization of a marine fish trypanosome from South Africa, including its development in a leech vector
Trypanosomes are ubiquitous blood parasites of marine and freshwater fishes, typically transmitted by aquatic leeches. Phylogenetic studies have been dominated by examples derived from freshwater fishes, with ...
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Open AccessThree-dimensional visualisation of developmental stages of an apicomplexan fish blood parasite in its invertebrate host
Although widely used in medicine, the application of three-dimensional (3D) imaging to parasitology appears limited to date. In this study, developmental stages of a marine fish haemogregarine, Haemogregarina cur...
