Exam #1 Flashcards
(50 cards)
living together, two different species that live together “long” terms
symbiosis
host vs. commensal
commensalism
host vs. mutualist
mutualism
host vs. parasite
parasitism
refers to the organism being lived in or on as the “host”
convention
species name
taxonomy
can be located everywhere
cosmopolitan
actual damage being done
pathology
the way the disease spreads in a population
epidemiology
common parasitic diseases in the U.S
-pinworm
-Giardiasis
-dog roundworm
-ticks
inside parasite (most of what we will talk about in class)
endoparasite
outside parasite
ectoparasite
parasite of a parasite (like tapeworms in a flea)
hyperparasite
organism that has to spend some of its life cycle as a parasite (has to find a host in order to complete its life cycle, or it will die)
obligate
not typically a parasite but can act as one depending upon its environment
facultative
obligate parasite (organism that has to become a host before it dies) that enters a host that typically is not a host, “accidental” parasite
incidental
parasite that lives on its host until maturity or spends its entire life on its host
permanent
parasite that visits its host at intervals for nourishment
intermittent
host where parasite is able to reach sexual maturity (typically human)
definitive host
organism that supports the immature or nonreproductive forms of a parasite
intermediate host
when a parasite can infect a host
-doesn’t always have to be injected, can also be ingested
-you can also not get infected if ingested with a parasite but you don’t come in contact with the parasite in the “right way”
–if you eat do intestine thats infected with adult worm parasites, you will not be effected because its not in the infective stage
transmission stages (aka infective stages)
only one host, only has direct not intermediate (aka monoxenous)
-life cycle which a parasite is transmitted directly from one host to the next WITHOUT an intermediate host or vector of another species
direct life cycle
has more than one host (aka heteroxenous)
-life cycle which a parasite is transmitted directly from one host to the next WITH an intermediate host or vector of another species (contains direct and intermediate host)
indirect life cycle
intermediate host is not something the host typically eats
-an intermediate host whose presence may be required for the completion of a parasite’s life cycle but in which no development of a parasite occurs
paratenic host