Piroplasms
Piroplasmida
Order of parasites in phylum Apicomplexa, vertebrate hosts, tick and leech vectors
Piroplasmida is an order of parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa.[3][4] They divide by binary fission and as sporozoan parasites they possess sexual and asexual phases (sexual reproduction occurs in the tick gut[5]). They include the tick parasites Babesia and Theileria.[6][7]
Piroplasmida phylogeny (mtDNA)[2] | |||||||||||||||
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