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:
The mitochondria in human cells may also have originally been such parasites, but ended up forming a symbiotic relationship.
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