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Description: Figure 3 of paper: Toxoplasma gondii in a bar-shouldered dove, lung. Two tachyzoites enclosed in a parasitophorous vacuolar membrane (pvm). Note conoid (co), micronemes (mn), rhoptries (ro) with honey-combed contents, and a nucleus (nu) in each tachyzoite. The parasitophorous vacuole has membranous tubules. Transmission electron microscopy.
Title: Parasite140105-fig3 Toxoplasmosis in a bar-shouldered dove - TEM of 2 tachyzoites
Credit: Rigoulet, J., Hennache, A., Lagourette, P., George, C., Longeart, L., Le Net, J.-L. & Dubey, J. P. 2014: Toxoplasmosis in a bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis) from the Zoo of Clères, France. Parasite, 21, 62. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014062
Author: Jacques Rigoulet, Alain Hennache, Pierre Lagourette, Catherine George, Loïc Longeart, Jean-Loïc Le Net and Jitender P. Dubey
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