Parasitology final multiple choice with 100% correct answers 2024
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What is the relationship between a host and a parasite?
-host is the environment, providing metabolic needs and habitat for the parasite
Definitive host
primary host, final host
host in which parasite spends sexual stage of its life cycle, ether in or on
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Parasitology final multiple
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answers 2024
What is the relationship between a host and a parasite? - answer -
host is the environment, providing metabolic needs and habitat for
the parasite
Definitive host - answer primary host, final host
host in which parasite spends sexual stage of its life cycle, ether in
or on
Intermediate host - answer host in which parasite goes through
larval and developmental stages, parasite may reproduce asexually
Prevalence - answer Number of cases at a given time
Incidence - answer number of new cases over a unit of time
aggregated population - answer a minority of the host population
has the majority of parasites
Premunition - answer Host recovers, parasites remain in small
numbers and host now immune to rechallenge
Concomitant immunity - answer Host elicits and immune response
that prevents another infection, immune response is ineffective in
getting rid of the initial infection
,Blood/tissue flagelates - answer -trypanisomes, have kinetoplasts
-mucocutaneous: low parasite numbers with uncontrolled
inflammation in nose/mouth
-diffuse cutaenous: high parasite numbers and tolerogenic immune
response
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