Sentences with phrase «microscopic parasites which»

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The biggest risk is toxoplasmosis which is an infection you can get from a microscopic parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.

The early studies helped Duffy determine that the microscopic aquatic parasite she first observed as a graduate student, and which her research team had recently collected in more than a dozen southeast Michigan lakes, is the same fungus - like organism that a French biologist first described in 1903.

Among the instructors is Manu Prakash, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford and a pioneer in the field of «frugal science,» who has brought his powerful $ 1 paper microscopes to Madagascar and taught students how to explore the microscopic world in which they live, including the lice in their hair, the pathogens in their water and the disease - causing parasites in their environment.

However, the cat is the ideal host for Toxoplasma gondii because it is the only animal in which this microscopic parasite can complete its life cycle.

Internal parasites produce microscopic eggs which pass through the reptile in their feces.

It can also treat coccidial infections, which are caused by a microscopic, spore - forming, single - celled parasite that infects the intestinal tract.