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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.
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- Parasite
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Indexed with the subheadings anatomy & histology, chemistry, classification, cytology, drug effects, embryology, enzymology, genetics, growth & development, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, pathogenicity, physiology, radiation effects, ultrastructure, virology.
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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)
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PARASITICIDES was heading 1963-66
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- National Library of Medicine. Parasites. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010271. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010271
- Parasites. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite
- Parasites. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10253316