Figure 1.
The acute tissue stage of disease (schizogenous phase) is characterized by widespread dissemination of schizonts which form parasitic thrombi throughout the body, resulting in a disease course that is typically fatal. Hosts that survive this acute tissue phase develop a chronic, yet fairly innocuous, erythroparasitemia with merozoite-infected cells. Figure from Tarigo et al. 1 A novel candidate vaccine for cytauxzoonosis inferred from comparative apicomplexan genomics. PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071233