Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the cells that are released from the oocyst of an apicomplexan parasite and invade a new host cell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the minute active bodies into which a
sporozoan divides just before itinfects a new host cell.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Plasmodium, for example, enters a human body through a mosquito bite as a zucchini-shaped form known as a sporozoite.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Plasmodium, for example, enters a human body through a mosquito bite as a zucchini-shaped form known as a sporozoite.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Plasmodium, for example, enters a human body through a mosquito bite as a zucchini-shaped form known as a sporozoite.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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It has been known since the 1960s that one form of the malaria parasite - called the sporozoite - can wake up the immune system and help to protect against future infection.
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Anti-sporozoite vaccines, designed to prevent infection.
Chapter 2 1998
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According to Dr. Stephen L. Hoffman, Sanaria's founder and chief scientist, "Sanaria is uniquely positioned at this time to expand the pipeline of candidate sporozoite vaccines to include vaccines based on precisely gene-altered parasites that are highly potent in inducing protective immunity against malaria and are unable to cause disease."
Medindia Health News 2010
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Sanaria has developed technologies and built a facility to manufacture a radiation attenuated sporozoite vaccine that can be administered by injection and has met FDA regulatory standards for initial clinical evaluation.
Medindia Health News 2010
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"Sanaria's proven ability to manufacture whole sporozoite vaccines in compliance with FDA standards means that promising new strains of the malaria parasite that are being developed in our research laboratory can be efficiently translated into prototype candidate vaccines suitable for testing in the clinic," says Dr. David Fidock of Columbia University.
Medindia Health News 2010
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Dr. Robert Sauerwein of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, whose laboratory in collaboration with Sanaria has generated several genetically attenuated strains of Plasmodium falciparum concurs, stating, "This is a very exciting opportunity to make significant strides that will facilitate translation from the laboratory to clinical studies of a vialed, genetically attenuated, sporozoite vaccine inoculated by needle and syringe."
Medindia Health News 2010
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Sanaria's radiation attenuated sporozoite vaccine, Sanaria (TM) PfSPZ Vaccine, entered clinical trials in 2009.
Medindia Health News 2010
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