RT Book, Section A1 Levinson, Warren A1 Chin-Hong, Peter A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A. A1 Nussbaum, Jesse A1 Schwartz, Brian SR Print(0) ID 1171930384 T1 Blood & Tissue Protozoa T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 16e YR 2020 FD 2020 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781260116717 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1171930384 RD 2024/03/29 AB The medically important organisms in this category of protozoa consist of the sporozoans Plasmodium and Toxoplasma and the flagellates Trypanosoma and Leishmania. Pneumocystis is discussed in this book as a protozoan because it is considered as such from a medical point of view. However, molecular data indicate that it is related to yeasts such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Table 51–2 summarizes several important features of these blood and tissue protozoa.