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The stage of kinetoplastid parasites most often found inside infected tissue cells.  Amastigotes multiply intracellularly by binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes.     
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Amastigote is an intracellular "replicative" form of a parasite.  It is a round/oval shaped cell without any protruding flagellum.  Amastigotes replicate inside the infected tissue cells (of vertebrate host) by binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes.     
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[[image: Amastigote.GIF‎]]
  
 
[[expected_location::mammalian cells]].Seen in [[seen_in::Leishmania]] sp and in [[seen_in::Trypanosoma cruzi]].
 
[[expected_location::mammalian cells]].Seen in [[seen_in::Leishmania]] sp and in [[seen_in::Trypanosoma cruzi]].
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1) http://dna.kdna.ucla.edu/parasite_course-old/Default.aspx
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[[Category: Tcruzi]] [[Category:Parasite Life Cycle ontology]]
 
[[Category: Tcruzi]] [[Category:Parasite Life Cycle ontology]]

Latest revision as of 19:13, 8 September 2009

Amastigote is an intracellular "replicative" form of a parasite. It is a round/oval shaped cell without any protruding flagellum. Amastigotes replicate inside the infected tissue cells (of vertebrate host) by binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes. Amastigote.GIF

expected_location::mammalian cells.Seen in seen_in::Leishmania sp and in seen_in::Trypanosoma cruzi.

Reference:

1) http://dna.kdna.ucla.edu/parasite_course-old/Default.aspx