CHAPTER XL 



PATHOGENIC PROTOZOA OF THE CLASS SARCODINA 

 (RHIZOPODA) 



THE Sarcodinse (Rhizopodse) are protozoa having during adult 

 life movable or changeable processes of protoplasm called pseudo- 

 podia. Reproduction is accomplished through simple fission and 

 by spore formation. 



Among the hundreds of genera and thousands of species of 

 organisms belonging to this group that have been described there 



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Fig. I'v"). Ameba in culture (Schardinger). 



is one (possibly two or three) which has been found to be patho- 

 genic. They are certainly known to be pathogenic in man only, 



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