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Genus of single-celled organisms
Entopolypoides is a genus of parasites belonging to the phylum
Apicomplexa .
History
The type species (
Entopolypoides macaci ) was described by Mayer in 1934 in a
Macaca irus monkey from
Java .
[1]
Description
Young parasites are delicate rings with a large vacuole but the more mature parasites have several fine long processes.
After three days in the erythrocyte the parasite divides into four. There is no synchronicity of division.
Host range
Note
The genus Entopolypoides may be synonymous with that of
Babesia .
[2] Further work in this area will be need to clarify this.
References
^ Fairbairn H (1948). "The occurrence of a piroplasm, Entopolypoides macaci , in East African monkeys". Ann Trop Med Parasitol . 42 (1): 118.
doi :
10.1080/00034983.1948.11685355 .
PMID
18915553 .
^ Bronsdon MA, Homer MJ, Magera JM, Harrison C, Andrews RG, Bielitzki JT, Emerson CL, Persing DH, Fritsche TR (1999).
"Detection of enzootic babesiosis in baboons (Papio cynocephalus ) and phylogenetic evidence supporting synonymy of the genera Entopolypoides and Babesia " . J. Clin. Microbiol . 37 (5): 1548–53.
PMC
84825 .
PMID
10203519 .
Archigregarinorida
Eugregarinorida
Aseptatorina
Blastogregarinorina
Septatorina
Fusionicae (
Fusionidae )
Gregarinicae (
Cephaloidophoridae ,
Cephalolobidae ,
Didymophoridae ,
Gregarinidae ,
Hirmocystidae ,
Metameridae ,
Uradiophoridae )
Porosporicae (
Porosporidae )
Stenophoricae (
Acutidae ,
Amphiplatysporidae ,
Brustiophoridae ,
Cnemidosporidae ,
Dactylophoridae ,
Leidyanidae ,
Monoductidae ,
Monoicidae ,
Sphaerocystidae ,
Stenophoridae ,
Trichorhynchidae )
Stylocephaloidea (
Actinocephalidae ,
Stylocephalidae )
Blabericolidae
Neogregarinorida