Isospora

Isospora
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Conoidasida
Order:	Eucoccidiorida
Family:	Eimeriidae
Genus:	Isospora; Schneider, 1881
Species
	I. almaataensis; I. anseris ; I. ashmoonensis ; I. bahiensis; I. bigemina; I. bronchocelae; I. buteonis; I. buteonis; I. cardellinae; I. hammondi; I. heydorni; I. hominis; I. mandari; I. mejiro; I. neorivolta; I. peromysci ; I. rara ; I. ratti; I. rivolta; I. thibetana; I. wallacei

Isospora is a genus of internal parasites in the subclass Coccidia.^[1]^[2]

It is responsible for the condition isosporiasis, which causes acute, non-bloody diarrhoea in immunocompromised individuals.

^ Grulet, O.; Landau, I.; Millet, P.; Baccam, D. (1986). "Les Isospora du Moineau. I — Compléments à l'étude systématique" (PDF). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 61 (2): 155–160. doi:10.1051/parasite/1986612155. ISSN 0003-4150.
^ Grulet, O.; Landau, I.; Millet, P.; Baccam, D. (1986). "Les Isospora du Moineau. II — Études sur la biologie". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 61 (2): 161–192. doi:10.1051/parasite/1986612161. ISSN 0003-4150.