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An organism thatcan transmit bacteria/ disease to another organism
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| segmented worms (ex: night crawlers and leeches) |
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| chemical compounds used to treat iternal and external parasites |
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| kills certain adult helminths |
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| an organism that lives in or on another living organism at whose expense it obtains some advantage |
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| an organism that lives on another organism |
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| an organism that lives inside another organism |
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Erratic/ Aberrant Parasite |
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| an organism that wanders from its ususal site of infection |
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| a parasite that infects a host it ususally does not usually infect |
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| an organism that is capable of living in the enviornment and leading a nonparasitic existence |
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| a free-living parasite that can become infective in certain hosts |
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| organisms or objects that are not paraites but may be mistakenly idnetified as parasites |
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| a host that harbors the adult, sexual or mature stages of a parasite (aka final host) |
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| this host harbors at least one developmental stage of the parasite before transfering to another host |
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Transport/ Paratenic Host |
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| a type of intermediate host that harbors a stage of the parasite which does not undergo a developemental stage in the host |
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| a vertebrate host in which a parasite or disease occurs naturally and is a source of infection |
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| host that carries the parasite but does not show any signs of illness |
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| host that carries the parasite and shows signs of illness |
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| disease the agents of that are transmitted between vertebrate animals and people |
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| egg with a single morula stage |
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| egg with 1st stage larva inside |
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| incubate eggs internaly and produce live larva |
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| cylindrical, unsegmented worms that have rounded ends, have complete digestive tracts and have 4-5 life stages |
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| the absence of immature filarial parasites |
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| dewormer thatkills immature filarial worms |
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| infection with ascarids,either larval or adult |
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| a symbiotic relationship where one benefits while the other is not harmed nor beneficial |
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| name for a living organism in different regions of the world |
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| parasite with a very broad host range |
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| the group a particular type of animal, parasite or plant belongs to |
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| a parasite the will only infect one type of host (aka monoxenous parasite) |
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| in a parasitic relationship, the member in which or on which the parasite lives |
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| a condition caused by an endoparasite |
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| a condition caused by an ectoparasite |
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| development of a parasite through its various life stages. every parasite has its own distinct, individual life cycle with at least one definitive host and may have one or more intermediate hosts |
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Linnaean Classification Scheme |
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classification for all living organisms perfected by Linnaeus, an early Sweedish biologist
(kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genous, species) |
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| a parasite that will only infect one type of host |
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| both organisms derive some benefit |
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parasite that must lead a parasitic existence
(most common parasites of domestic animals) |
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| the study of parasitic relationships |
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| disease causing probability |
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| makes frequent short visits to its host to obtain nourishment or other benefits |
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| the smaller member in the relationship is mechanically carries by the larger member |
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| unicellular or single cell, organisms that may be flagellates, amoebae, sporozoans, apicomplexans, or cilates |
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| name for livong organisms that is composed of 2 Latin words, usually written in italics |
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| the type of animal in a genous |
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| parasite with a narrow host range |
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| any association between at least 2 living organisms of different species |
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