intermediate host in English

noun
1
an organism that supports the immature or nonreproductive forms of a parasite.
This is because snails are the intermediate host to the parasite, which is released into shallow water, and then infects ducks and people.

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1. Methods The breeding environment and the density of intermediate host were observed at regular intervals and the natural infectious status of intermediate host was surveyed by dissection.

2. Affinis as the first intermediate host and Cardiid bivalves as the second

3. Objective To investigate species, infection and breeding regulation of the intermediate host of Trichobilharzia in the Huaihe River System.

4. All Cestodes have at least one, and sometimes more than one, secondary or intermediate host as well as their primary host

5. Objective To investigate the species, infection rate and rhythm of reproduction of the Lymnaeidae, intermediate host of Trichobilharzia in the Huaihe River System.

6. The definitive host of Angiostrongylus cantonensis is Rattus norvegicus and intermediate host is Ampullarum crossean. Its suggest that we must take precautions against Angiostrongylus cantonensis.

7. Cestoda, class Cestoda - tapeworms echinococcus - tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals taenia - tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host

8. Mysis relicta has been identified as an intermediate host of the acanthocephalan Echinorhynchus leidyi (Van Cleave, 1924) Golvan, 1969 in four of eight lakes examined in northwestern Ontario.

9. Cestoda or tapeworms are the most specialised of the Platyhelminthe parasites. All cestodes have at least one, and sometimes more than one, secondary or intermediate host as well as their primary host

10. Identification of the intermediate host of K. thyrsites and of the putative actinospore stages that are infective to fish will permit more systematic analyses of the factors that regulate infection in farmed fish.

11. The pig is the intermediate host, in which parasites grow into larvae (Cysticerci) from eggs, whereas humans are the definitive host, in which parasites grow into the adult stage and produce eggs [90,91]

12. Acanthocephalans, also known as spiny-headed or thorny-headed worms, are necrotrophic worms that live as adults exclusively in the vertebrate's small intestine and exhibit an indirect life cycle, which utilizes an arthropod intermediate host

13. The Black currants will make an important contribution to our line." The federal government had banned the growing of black and red currants in 1911 when the burgeoning logging industry put pressure on lawmakers to eliminate the currants because they were thought to be an intermediate host of white pine blister rust.