By 1845, Protozoa was established as a phylum or subset of the animal kingdom by German scientist Carl Theodor von Seibold. This phylum included certain ciliates and amoebas, which were described ...

Protozoa of the genera Cryptosporidium and Giardia are among the most common causes of waterborne diarrheal outbreaks in developed countries. They can be ingested accidentally by humans through ...

A new test using protozoa — single-celled organisms — has been developed by U.K. researchers, who say it has "great potential" for reducing the use of animals to determine the safety of cosmetics.

The analysis of a termite entombed for 100 million years in an ancient piece of amber has revealed the oldest example of "mutualism" ever discovered between an animal and microorganism, and also ...

9 Interesting facts about Protozoa. 1. Entamoeba Histolytica is a pathogenic parasite and causes amoebic dysentery or Amebiasis. It is an infection of the human gastrointestinal tract in which ...

THE presence of hæmoglobin in the ciliate Paramecium caudatum was discovered by Sato and Tamiya1. This is the first, and so far the only, record of the occurrence of hæmoglobin in Protozoa, one ...

Charles Atwood Kofoid, The Protozoa of the Human Mouth. Presidential Address, American Society of Parasitologists, New York, December 29, 1928, The Journal of ...

Some protozoa infect the brain of their host, shaping its behavior in ways most suited to the pathogen, even if it leads to the suicide of the host. Skip to main content. Scientific American.

The Rocky Canyon swim beach at Lake Pueblo State Park has been indefinitely closed after protozoa were found Monday to be lining the water’s shoreline.