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Descriptor
English
:
Parasites
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Parásitos
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Parasitos
Tree Number:
B01.500.714
SP4.011.107.228.414
Definition
English
:
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.
Indexing Annotation
English
:
GEN or unspecified only: prefer specifics; for parasiticides, consider
ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS
;
ANTHELMINTICS
;
ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS
& their 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 (IM or NIM)
See Related
English
:
Anthelmintics
Anti-Infective Agents
Antiprotozoal Agents
Food Parasitology
Host-Parasite Interactions
History Note
English
:
PARASITICIDES was heading 1963-66
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
anatomy & histology
chemistry
classification
cytology
drug effects
embryology
enzymology
growth & development
genetics
immunology
isolation & purification
metabolism
microbiology
physiology
parasitology
pathogenicity
radiation effects
ultrastructure
virology
Record Number:
10460
Unique Identifier:
D010271
Occurrence in VHL
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