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Coccidia (Eimeria spp.) The parasitic one-celled organism that causes the disease coccidiosis is from the same class (Sporozoa) as the organisms that cause malaria. Parasites from this class form spores at some stage of their life cycle. Additional animations describing life cycles of parasites that infect the goat.
Cryptosporidium
Dictyocaulus vivparus (lungworm)
Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke)
Haemonchus contortus (barber pole worm)
Parelaphostrongylus tenuis (brain or meningeal worm)
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