"Parasites" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D010271
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.714
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Parasites" by people in Profiles.
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Scientific Findings of the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research: Ten Years of Malaria Control Impact Assessments in Hypo-, Meso-, and Holoendemic Transmission Zones in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 10 11; 107(4_Suppl):55-67.
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Benzimidazole Derivatives Are Potent against Multiple Life Cycle Stages of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Parasites. ACS Infect Dis. 2021 07 09; 7(7):1945-1955.
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The Role of Small Extracellular Vesicles in Viral-Protozoan Symbiosis: Lessons From Trichomonasvirus in an Isogenic Host Parasite Model. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2020; 10:591172.
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[Diagnosis of intestinal parasitic diseases]. Hospital (Rio J). 1969 Jan; 75(1):231-48.