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Medical Definition of Cyclospora
1. A Cryptosporidium-like genus of coccidian parasites reported from millipedes, reptiles, insectivores, and a rodent species. Cyclospora is characterised by acid-fast oocysts with two sporocysts, each with two sporozoites. Cyclospora species is an undescribed but distinct species of Cyclospora that is implicated as the cause of a widespread, prolonged but self-limited human diarrhoea in patients in North, Central, and South America; Caribbean countries; Southeast Asia; and eastern Europe previously reported as caused by cyanobacterium-like bodies. Synonym: cyanobacterium-like bodies. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclospora
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