PATHOLOGY MCQ
PARASITIC DISEASES
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Husbandry
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Anemia
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The host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach maturity
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Heartworms
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Detailed explanation-1: -Paratenic or transport host – an organism that harbors the sexually immature parasite but is not necessary for the parasite’s development cycle to progress. Paratenic hosts serve as “dumps” for non-mature stages of a parasite in which they can accumulate in high numbers.
Detailed explanation-2: -TRANSPORT HOST IT IS ONE IN WHICH THE LARVAL OR IMMATURE STAGE OF THE PARASITE DOES NOT UNDERGO ANY DEVELOPMENT BUT REMAIN ALIVE AND INFECTIVE TO ANOTHER HOST.. LATER ON, THEY ARE VOIDED OUT FROM SUCH HOST. EXAMPLE. EARTHWORMS ACT AS TRANSPORT HOST FOR Ascaridia galli.
Detailed explanation-3: -Paratenis/transport host: the parasite does not undergo development but remains alive and infective.
Detailed explanation-4: -intermediate host. noun. : a host which is normally used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle and in which it may multiply asexually but not sexually compare definitive host. : reservoir sense 2.