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
A research team placed Halteria ciliates—a type of protozoan with hairlike organelles found in freshwater worldwide—in a petri dish with only chloroviruses, which infect green algae.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 11, 2023
By taking a deeper look at how this stealthy protozoan travels through our anatomy, we can develop better tools at disrupting its devastating pathways.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2022
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
There is another protozoan, called blepharisma, telling a long story about the chanciness and fallibility of complex life.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Microbiology - High School
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Marine Biology - Middle School
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Marine Biology - High School
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