Difference between revisions of "Amastigote"

From Knoesis wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 1: Line 1:
The stage of kinetoplastid parasites that is most often found inside infected tissue cells.  Amastigotes multiply intracellularly by binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes.     
+
An intracellular form (or stage) of a parasite that can replicate.  Amastigotes multiply inside the infected tissue cells by binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes.     
  
 
[[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]].
  
 
[[Category: Tcruzi]] [[Category:Parasite Life Cycle ontology]]
 
[[Category: Tcruzi]] [[Category:Parasite Life Cycle ontology]]

Revision as of 20:38, 26 June 2009

An intracellular form (or stage) of a parasite that can replicate. Amastigotes multiply inside the infected tissue cells by binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes.

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