Amastigote

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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.