"Apicomplexa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A phylum of unicellular parasitic EUKARYOTES characterized by the presence of complex apical organelles generally consisting of a conoid that aids in penetrating host cells, rhoptries that possibly secrete a proteolytic enzyme, and subpellicular microtubules that may be related to motility.
| Descriptor ID |
D016782
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.043.075
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| Concept/Terms |
Sporozoea- Sporozoea
- Sporozoeas
- Sporozoa
- Sporozoas
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Apicomplexa" by people in Profiles.
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ApiDB: integrated resources for the apicomplexan bioinformatics resource center. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan; 35(Database issue):D427-30.
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Immunogenicity of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein multiple antigen peptide vaccine formulated with different adjuvants. Vaccine. 1998 Jan-Feb; 16(2-3):305-12.