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What is a sporozoan?

What is a sporozoan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of many parasitic protozoans, of the class Sporozoa, that reproduce alternately sexually and asexually via spores; they are responsible for diseases such as malaria
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Such sporozoan infections are usually unresponsive to treatment and diseased fish should be removed from the tank.
They are generally placed in the sporozoan class Toxoplasmea, although they may more properly be classed as coccidian parasites under the order Eucoccidia.
Haplosporidian, any protozoan of the sporozoan subclass Haplosporea.
By far the most common sporozoan intestinal parasite is Cryptosporidium parvum.
Plasmodium, a genus of parasitic protozoans of the sporozoan subclass Coccidia that are the causative organisms of malaria.
Others suffer more or less from the attacks of various sporozoan parasites.

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