Apicomplexans

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What is Apicomplexans?

- Under the Phylum Apicomplexa and also known as Sporozoa

- Immature sporozoa surrounded by thick wall (spore-like walls)

- Most sporozoans are spore-forming parasitic and harmful protozoaa

- Adult forms are lacking of locomotion structure such as flagella, cilia and pseudopodia 

- Move by flexing

- Apicomplexans have a apical complex of microtubules that attach to its host cells.

- Immature sporozoans are called as sporozoites (small infecting agent) that can be transmitted through fluid from one host to another.

- Sporozoans cause many disease for example Malaria and Toxoplasmosis

- Malaria is a disease that spread by female Anopheles mosquito through biting, transfusion and sharing hypodermic needles

- Toxoplasmosis is a disease that has flulike symptoms is transmitted from cat to humans