sporozoite

Any of the cells that are released from the oocyst of an apicomplexan parasite and invade a new host cell.

One of the minute germs of telosporidean Sporozoa, which enter the intestinal cells of vertebrates and start the life-cycle of the species to which they belong.

In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat amœboid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.

Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.

one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle