PATHOLOGY MCQ
PARASITIC DISEASES
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Either A or B
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Detailed explanation-1: -Note: The parasite that lives inside the body of the host and harms it from there are known as endoparasites. In the case of the human body, the worms living inside the intestine are endoparasites.
Detailed explanation-2: -Endoparasites are parasites which live inside a host and generally inhabit areas such as the gut, lungs, heart and blood vessels.
Detailed explanation-3: -Endoparasites colonize the internal organs or tissues of their hosts, such as the thoracic cavity, muscles or organs of the digestive and urinary tract [2].
Detailed explanation-4: -(B) Endoparasites live inside the host. Examples include Dirofilaria immitis, a roundworm that lives inside cats and causes heartworm disease, hookworms inside human guts, and Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite that lives inside human red blood cells.