protozoan

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Giardia duodenalis is a microscopic protozoan parasite known for causing outbreaks of severe diarrhea.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

One common protozoan disease known to occur in birds, which evolved from feathered dinosaurs, as well as in people is called trichomoniasis, caused by a parasitic protozoan.

From Reuters • Oct. 1, 2022

Though the idea of a mind-altering protozoan transmitted via cats is alarming, it is not necessarily harmful: roughly 30 percent of the human population is infected with the T gondii parasite.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2022

Researchers have found a new protozoan, Haplosporidium pinnae, in dead and dying mussels.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2021

This is the protozoan, not yet as famous as he should be, who seems to be telling us everything about everything, all at once.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas