Cryptosporidium species

Cryptosporidium spp. are gastrointestinal coccidians (although the taxonomy is controversial) of a wide range of vertebrates (mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish). Surve...

Cystoisospora species

Dogs and cats around the world, especially pups and kittens, are often infected with a range of species of Cystoisospora (formerly known as Isospora).

Free-living amoebae

Free-living amoebae are protozoa that normally live in the environment and only occasionally infect human or animal hosts. Acanthamoeba spp. and Naegleria fowleri are the most comm...

Giardia species

Giardia species occur around the world in people, domestic animal and wildlife.

Leishmania species

Species of the flagellate protozoan Leishmania infect people, domestic dogs and an array of free-ranging mammals in South and Central America, southern Europe, the Middle East, Afr...

Neospora caninum

Neospora caninum is a protozoan parasite, closely related and in several respects similar to Toxoplasma gondii, that is a major cause of abortion in cattle around the world and an ...

Sarcocystis species

Species of the intracellular, apicomplexan protozoan Sarcocystis occur in mammals, reptiles and birds around the world, including in Canada.

Sarcocystis species-pigs

Species of the intracellular, apicomplexan protozoan Sarcocystis occur in mammals, reptiles and birds around the world, including in Canada.

Toxoplasma gondii

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasite of mammals and birds that occurs around the world, including in Canada.

Toxoplasma gondii

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasite of mammals and birds that occurs around the world, including in Canada.

Toxoplasma gondii — pigs

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasite of mammals and birds that occurs around the world, including in Canada.

Trypanosoma cruzi

Interestingly, a serosurvey for Leishmania and other pathogens in foxhounds in the northeast of North America demonstrated widespread exposure to another flagellate protozoan — Try...