| Fecal specimens were collected from rural school children, processed, stained, and examined for cyst and trophozoite stages. |
| Tracks on the agar plate formed by the directional motility of the trophozoite can be observed. |
| The trophozoite produces numerous pansporoblasts, each of which gives rise to many spores. |
| Synchronised parasites were harvested using gelafundin floatation at the trophozoite stage which was then cultured to ring stage. |
| The life cycle consists of an active trophozoite and dormant cyst. |
| The trophozoite is now large and full-grown, and has become rounded and ready for schizogony. |
