Stage Mean size (nm) (range) in:   Dense granules Amylopectin Lipid Sporozoite 208 (175-250) 356 (200-460) 388 (200-550) Tachyzoite 244 (133-334) 201 (103-333) 224 (150-400) Bradyzoite 181 (167-201) 358 (192-603) 0 For the source of these infectious stages, (Table 23). It must be noted that tachyzoites and bradyzoites could both be present in the same parasitophorus vacuole indicating that stage conversion from tachyzoite to bradyzoite is asynchronous

Table 25: Relative sizes of inclusion bodies in sporozoites, tachyzoites, and bradyzoites of the VEG strain of T. gondii (according to Dubey et al. [453],with own modifications).