Introduction Flashcards
Heterogenetic association
Relationship b/w two non similar organisms “living together”
Symbiosis
The participants in symbiosis
Symbions
Phorons; traveling together w no intement relationship
Phoresis
commensals depends on larger one and is not affected
Commensalism
They both benefit in the association
Mutualism
Parasites harm the host
Depend on host for survival
Parasitism
Where sexual maturation develop in adult stage
Definitive host
Where larvae development occur
Intermediate host
Host that are not readily affected as oppose to susceptible
Refractory host
Do not harbor the parasite but accidentally get the parasite and survive
Susceptible
Harbor the adult stage but no manifestation
It can be the source of infection
Reservoir host
This is where the development takes place
Biologic host
Inanimate objects
Fomites or mechanical
They carry the parasite with no apparent manifestation
It can transmit parasite anytime
Asymptomatic
Carriers / transport host
Biologic host but no development takes place
Parasite is at its arrested stage
Paratenich host