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Explain how the microsporidia infect the cells of their animal hosts.

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The process of infecting the animal cells resembles that of a virus (off course, the cell itself is vastly more complicated). Namely, the microsporidian spore grows a polar tube, through which the sporoplasm is injected into the cell. The sporoplasm replicates, creating new infective spores.

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