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Parasites
types of parasites
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
03/07/2015

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What is the term for a parasite that is capable of causing damage, but the animal shows no signs of disease?
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Parasitiasis
Term
What is the term for a parasite that is present and causing obvious damage?
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Parasitosis
Term
This is the term for a parasite that uses a host other than the usual host
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Accidental
Term
This is the term for a parasite that has gone to a spot other than its normal site of infection
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Aberrant
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This is the term for a parasite that may be parasitic but can live on its own in a non parasitic form.
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Facultative
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This is the term for a parasite that is completely dependent on the host for survival
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Obligate
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This is the term for a parasite that only stays with the host for a short time
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Periodic
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This is the term for a parasite that will infect only one type of host, in other words it’s species specific.
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Homoxenous
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This is the term for a parasite that has a broad range of hosts
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Euryxenous
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This is a term for a parasite or disease that can go from animals to humans
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Zoonosis
Term
This drug kills insects
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Insecticides
Term
This is a poison that in general is more toxic to the parasite than the host.
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Parasiticide
Term
This drug is destructive to worms
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Anthelmintic
Term
This drug works against protozoans
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Antiprotozoals
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This is the term for the host that sexual reproduction occurs in or on
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final
Term
This is the term for the host that the parasite is best adapted to, the adult, sexual, or mature stage exist here
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Definitive
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This is the host necessary for development but not reproduction
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Intermediate
Term
This is the host that is used for transportation only, not for development.
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Paratentic
Term
This is the term for a vertebrate host that carries the parasite in nature as a source of infection or disease
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Reservoir
Term
This is the term for a parasite that carries a pathogen
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Vector
Term
This is the ectoparasite that includes insects and arachnids
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Arthropods
Term
This is the term for an unsegmented body
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Idiosoma
Term
This is the ectoparasite that includes superficial fungi and ringworm
Definition
Dermatophyte
Term
This endoparasite is a fluke type worm that has a leaflike appearance
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Trematode
Term
This endoparasite is a tapeworm
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Cestode
Term
This endoparasite is a roundworm
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Nematode
Term
This endoparasite is a single celled organism
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Protozoan
Term
This type of immune response is to something that the host was exposed to, and can have an over reaction
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Sensitization
Term
This type of immune response is to parasites that are present which help to prevent further infestation.
Definition
Premunition
Term
What is the term for a parasite that lays eggs?
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Oviparous
Term
What is the term for a parasite that lays eggs that have already hatched?
Definition
Ovoviviparous
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