Flashcards: Parasitology

A parasitic disease, also known as parasitosis, is an infectious disease caused or transmitted by a parasite.

Infestation is the state of being invaded or overrun by pests or parasites.

("Parasite" redirects here. For other uses, see Parasite (disambiguation).) In biology/ecology, parasitism is a non-mutual symbiotic relationship between species, where one species, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host.

In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces.

Helminthiasis (plural helminthiases), also known as worm infection, is any macroparasitic disease of humans and other animals in which a part of the body is infected with parasitic worms, known as helminths.

Recrudescence is the revival of material or behavior that had previously been stabilized, settled, or diminished.

The U.S. National Tick Collection is the largest collection of ticks in the world.

Indian Society for Parasitology is a non profit making registered society formed under the aegis of the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, working as a platform for the parasitologists in India for dissemination of knowledge and exchange of research information.

Mass deworming (also called preventive chemotherapy) is the process of treating large numbers of people, particularly children, for helminthiasis (for example soil-transmitted helminths (STH)) and schistosomiasis infections in areas with a high prevalence of these conditions.

Fujiro Katsurada (桂田 富士郎 Katsurada Fujirō, June 7, 1867 corresponding to 5th day, 5th month of the 3rd year of the Keio era - April 5, 1946) was a Japanese parasitologist who discovered a parasite called Schistosoma japonicum.

Telorchis is a genus of trematode parasites found in many herps, comprising around 70 species.