Amastigote
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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 by binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes.
expected_location::mammalian cells.Seen in seen_in::Leishmania sp and in seen_in::Trypanosoma cruzi.