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Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Parasites

Preferred term

Parasites  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • general or unspecified only: prefer specifics; in lower animals: Manual 22.20; relation to parasitic diseases: Manual 22.12-.20; parasites in food or parasitic contamination of food is indexed under FOOD PARASITOLOGY (IM) + specific parasite (IM) + specific food item /parasitol (IM) or (NIM)

Scope note

  • Invertebrate organisms that live on or in another organism (the host), and benefit at the expense of the other. Traditionally excluded from definition of parasites are pathogenic BACTERIA; FUNGI; VIRUSES; and PLANTS; though they may live parasitically.

History note

  • PARASITICIDES was heading 1963-66

In other languages

  • loiset

    Finnish

  • loinen
  • loiseliö
  • loiseliöt
  • parasiitit
  • parasiitti
  • parasitus
  • Parasiter

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010271

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