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| when a parasite wanders from its normal site of an infection on the host (see erratic parasite) |
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| "thorny headed worms" a phylum similar in appearance to nematodes with a spiny proboscis on their anterior end |
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| compounds that kill ticks and mites |
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| a chemical that kills the adult form of a parasite |
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| microfilaria (an immature form of nematodes like heartworm) are absent |
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| a phylum of segmented worms that includes leeches |
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| compounds developed to kill roundworms, tapeworms, flukes, and other thorny headed worms |
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| compounds developed to kill protozoan organisms |
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| a class of arthropods including ticks and mites |
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| a genus of the phylum nematodes known as "[small intestinal] roundworms" |
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| a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and it neither helps nor harms the other |
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| the everyday name of a species |
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| the host harboring the mature, sexual, or adult stages of the parasite |
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| living on the body of its host |
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| living within the host's body |
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| when an parasite wanders from its normal site of infection on the host (see aberrant parasite) |
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| a parasite with a broad range of hosts |
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| free living organisms that can become parasitic in certain hosts |
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| a parasite that can live a nonparasitic existence outside its hosts |
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| the group in which a species belongs, the first word and capitalized in the scientific name |
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| a parasite infecting only one type of host (see monoxenous) |
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| the animal a parasite settles on or within |
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| when a parasite occurs in a different host than it usually inhabits |
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| produced by an endoparasite |
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| produced by an ectoparasite |
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| a class of arthropods with three part bodies, six legs, and antennae that includes fleas and lice |
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| compounds that kill insects |
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| the host harboring the larval, immature, juvenile, or asexual life stages of a parasite |
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| bearing larvae instead of eggs |
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| the development of a parasite throughout various life stages |
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| Linnaean Classification Scheme |
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| the taxonomic classification of species where they are referred to in scientific Latin names |
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| a chemical that kills the microfilariae of heartworm |
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| a parasite infecting only one type of host (see homoxenous) |
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| when both organisms in a symbiotic relationship benefit |
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| "roundworms" phylum. a type of elongated unsegmented cylindric worm. the largest group of helminths parasitizing domestic animals |
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| an organism that can only survive parasitically |
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| producing eggs that are hatched within the body of the parent |
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| an organism which lives off the host and derives benefit at the other's expense |
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| the parasite is present and potentially pathogenic, but the animal does not exhibit outward signs of disease. |
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| the parasite is present and causing obvious harm to its host |
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| chemical compounds targeted at specific internal and external parasites |
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| the study of parasitic relationships and their effects on the body |
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| an intermediate host where a parasite remains arrested within its tissue until it reaches the definitive host to continue developing (see transport host) |
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| the potential of an organism to cause disease in a host |
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| a parasite that makes frequent, short trips to a host to obtain nourishment or other benefits |
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| the smaller member of a symbiotic relationship is physically carried by tthe larger one |
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| "flat worms" a phylum that includes the class trematoda/flukes |
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| a parasitic unicellular organism |
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| nonparasitic objects or organisms that are mistaken as such |
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| a vertebrae host in which the parasite occurs naturally and is a source of infection for humans and domestic animals, can maintain parasite when its not affecting intended targets without ill affect |
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| the formal two word Latin name of a species (binomial nomenclature) |
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| the second part of a scientific name distinguishing the species from others in its genus |
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| a parasite with a narrow host range |
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| any association between two organisms of different species |
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| an intermediate host where a parasite remains arrested within its tissue until it reaches the definitive host to continue developing (see paratenic host) |
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| "flukes" a class of parasitic animals in the phylum platyhelminthes |
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| an organism that acts as a transport of the infectious pathogen to the host |
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| a disease transmissible from animals to humans |
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