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| Human diseases that can be transmitted to animals |
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| disease that affects a large number of humans and spreads rapidly |
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| disease that affects a large number of non-human animals and spreads rapidly |
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| living on the surface; a skin parasite |
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| alternation of generations of a parasite |
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| the number of cases of an infection occuring during a given period of time in relation to the population unit in which they occur |
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| parasitic invasion resulting in injury and reaction to injury |
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| results in disease or morbid symptoms |
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| resistance to super-infection; depends upon the survival of parasites in host and disappears with their elimination |
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| number of organisms in a population infected with a parasite at any one time |
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| relative infectiousness of a parasite |
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| animal diseases that may be transmitted to humans |
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| number of parasites of a single species in single host |
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| living together; must be different species |
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| one symbiont benefits, the host is neither helped nor harmed |
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| parasite within a parasite |
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| host in which parasite reaches sexual maturity and reproduces |
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| host where asexual reproduction occurs |
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| host where the parasite continues to lvie and is infective but no parasite development takes place |
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