Day 1 (Pre-Test) Flashcards
within the living body
In vivo
The study of antibody-antigen reactors in vitro, using host serum for study
Serology
The species of animal or plant that harbors a parasite and provides some metabolic resources to the parasitic species.
Host
The presence of parasites in the blood (e.g. malaria schizonts in red blood cells)
Parasitemia
The name given to an organism consisting of its appropriate genus and species title
Scientific name
The establishment of arthropods on or within a host (including insects, ticks, and mites)
Infestation
The clinical comparison of different diseases that exhibit similar symptoms; designed to determine which disease the patient has
Differential diagnosis
The association of two different species of organism in which the smaller species lives on or within the other and has a metabolic dependence on the larger host species.
Parasitism
The association of two different species of organisms in which one partner is benefited and the other is neither benefited nor injured.
Commensalism
The association of two different species of organisms exhibiting metabolic dependence by their relationship
Symbiosis
The animal in which a parasite passes its larval stage or asexual reproduction phase
Intermediate host
The animal in which a parasite passes its adult existence, sexual reproductive phase, or both
Definitive host
The ability to produce pathogenic changes
Pathogenicity
Production of tissue changes or disease
Pathogenic
Observable in a test tube or another nonliving system
In vitro
Invasion of the body by a pathogenic organism (except arthropods), with accompanying reaction of the host tissues to the presence of the parasite
Infection
Infection of a host other than the normal host species. A parasite may or may not continue full development in an ________
Accidental host
Any arthropods or other living carriers that transport a pathogenic microorganism from an infected to a non infected host. a ______ may transmit a disease passively (mechanical vector) or may be an essential host in the life cycle of the pathogenic organism (biological vector)
Vectors
An organism capable of living an independent or a parasitic existence; not an obligatory parasite, but potentially parasitic
Facultative parasite
An animal that harbors a species of parasite that is also parasitic for humans and from which human may become infected
reservior host
An animal that harbors a parasite that does not reproduce; it carries the parasite from one location to another to infect a new host.
Paratenic host
A taxonomic category subordinate to family (and tribe) and superior to species, grouping those organisms that are alike in broad features but different in detail
Genus
A taxonomic category subordinate to a genus. A ______ maintains its classification by not interbreeding with other species.
Species
A parasite that cannot live apart from its host
Obligatory parasite
A parasite established within the body of its host
Endoparasite
A parasite established on or in the body of its host
Ectoparasite
A host harboring a parasite but exhibiting no clinical signs or symptoms
Transport host
A field of science dealing with the relationship of the various factors that determine the frequency and distribution of an infectious process or disease in a community
Epidemiology
A disease involving a parasite that has accidentally infected a human; the normal host for the parasite is an animal
zoonosis
A definite morbid process having a characteristic train of symptoms
Disease
