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bradyzoite
1. A slowly multiplying encysted form of sporozoan parasite typical of chronic infection.
2. An asexual stage, in which tissue cysts are formed, int the development of certain coccidian parasites (a subclass of sporozoa commonly parasitic in epithelial cells of the intestinal tract, but also found in the liver and other organs).
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