ACTIVITY 1 (TABLES) Flashcards
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Obligatory Parasite
Description: A parasite that is highly dependent on the host. If the host dies, then the parasite dies.
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Plasmodium falciparum
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Facultative Parasite
Description: A parasite that is not quite dependent to host. Can be parasitic, living inside the host or free living
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Spurious parasite
Description: a parasite of another animal which pass through the human body without further development or without causing any injury or damage
Example (Scientific or Common Name): Capillaria hepatica
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Intermittent Parasite
Description: A parasite that only feed on host by intervals then leaves after
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Mosquito
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Ectoparasite
Description: A parasite that lives in the superficial or outside of the host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Lice, Ticks
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Endoparasite
Description: A parasite that lives inside the host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Hematozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that feeds or invades in blood, like red blood cells
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Plasmodium falciparum
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Cytozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that invades on cells
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Plasmodium falciparum
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Coelozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that invades on body cavities
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Acanthocheilonema perstans
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Enterozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that invades in the “lumen” or small intestine
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Monoxenous Parasite
Description: A parasite that has only one host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Heteroxenous Parasite
Description: A parasite that has multiple host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Leishmania
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Wandering/Aberrant Parasite
Description: One which is never transmitted from man to man and which develops abnormally in man
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Taenia solium
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Monoecious Parasite
Description: A parasite that has both male and female reproductive organs, hermaphrodite
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Taenia saginata
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Dioecious Parasite
Description: A parasite that has both male and female species
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides