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Chapter One and Two Key Terms Flashcards

1
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Aberrant parasite

A

Erratic parasite (wanders from original place

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2
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Acaricides

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Drugs that kill mites and ticks

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Anthelmiintics

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Drugs to kill worms

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Antiprotozoals

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Drugs against protozoans

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Commensalism

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Relatinoship between parasite and host where only one benefits, the other is not affected

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Definitive host

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Where parasites will reproduce and grow to sexual maturity

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Erratic parasite

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Parasite that wanders from the place it normally lives to someplace else

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Euryxenous parasite

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Parasite that can effect many different species

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Facultative parasite

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Parasite that is free living I nature and can get picked up by host

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Homoxenous parasite

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Parasite that infects only one type of host

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Incidental parasite

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Found in a host it is usually not found in

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Intermediate host

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Carries immature, asexual parasites, transports parasites from one host to another

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13
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Monera

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Algae

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Monoxenous parasite

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Parasite that will only infect one type of host

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15
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Mutualism

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Both benefit

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Obligatory parasite

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Must live on or in a host

17
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Parasitiasis

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Parasite present, but animal does not exhibit clinical signs of disease

18
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Parasitism

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Association between two organisms of differing species

19
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Paratenic host

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Transports parasites

20
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Periodic parasite

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Parasite that makes short frequent visits to hosts

21
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PHORESIS

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Smaller member is carried by larger member

22
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Monogenetic flukes

A

ONe intermediate host

23
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Digenetic flukes

A

Fluke has two hosts

24
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True tapeworms

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Eucestodes

25
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Alimentary canal

A

GI tract

26
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Tegument

A

Skin

27
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Pseudotapeworms

A

Fake tape worms

28
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Roundworms

A

Nematodes, unsegmented, cylindrical

29
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Acanthocephalans

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Thorny headed worms, unsegmented, uncommon

30
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Leeches

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Hirudineans

31
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Causal agents

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Can cause something else

32
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Vectors

A

Something that carries a disease

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