Obligate intracellular parasite

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Obligate intracellular parasites are parasitic microorganisms that cannot reproduce outside their host cell, forcing the host to assist in the parasite's reproduction.

Obligate intracellular parasites of humans include:

• Viruses
• Certain bacteria, including:
• *Chlamydias
• *Rickettsias
• Certain protozoa, including:
• *Plasmodia species

The mitochondria in human cells may alos have origionally been such parasites, but ended up forming a symbiotic relationship.

 

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