No, parasites can be both invertebrates and vertebrates. Some examples of vertebrate parasites include tapeworms and lice, while examples of invertebrate parasites include ticks and fleas.
Parasites can be prokaryotic or eukaryotic. Prokaryotic parasites include bacteria that cause infections like Salmonella and E. coli. Eukaryotic parasites include protozoa such as Plasmodium (which causes malaria) and helminths like tapeworms.
Endoparasites are parasites that live inside their host's body. These parasites can reside in the digestive tract, blood vessels, tissues, or organs of their host. Common examples include tapeworms, nematodes, and flukes.
Metronidazole is an antibiotic used to treat anaerobic bacteria and parasites. These parasites include giardia lamblia and amoeba. It also treats trichomonas vaginal parasites.
Worms are normally not external parasites, but internal parasites. External parasites include different arthropod species like ticks, fleas, lice, mosquitos....
Parasites are commonly found on cats and dogs.
Infectious diseases caused by fungi include candidiasis, aspergillosis, and ringworm. Infectious diseases caused by parasites include malaria, toxoplasmosis, and giardiasis.
Flagellated parasites include organisms such as Giardia lamblia, Trichomonas vaginalis, and Trypanosoma brucei, which use whip-like structures called flagella for movement. These parasites can cause infections in humans and other animals, resulting in diseases such as giardiasis, trichomoniasis, and African sleeping sickness.
Some examples of density-dependent population regulation factors include competition for resources, predation, disease transmission, and stress from overcrowding. As population density increases, these factors can have a greater impact on the population size and dynamics.
The two types of parasites are:- 1) Ectoparasites :- Parasites which live on the external surface of the host are called ectoparasites. Examples :- 1. Animals - Ticks, Mosquitoes, Bed-bugs, Head louse, Leeches etc. 2. Plants - Cuscuta, Loranthus 2) Endoparasites :- Parasites living within the host are called endoparasites. Examples :- 1. Animals - Liverfluke, Tapeworm, Ascaris, Plasmodium 2. Plants - Many fungi.
Parasitology is the study of parasites and their relationships with their hosts. Its branches include medical parasitology, which focuses on parasites that cause human diseases, veterinary parasitology, which studies parasites that affect animals, and ecological parasitology, which looks at the interactions between parasites and their hosts in natural ecosystems.
Some worms, or intestinal parasites, in humans are contagious. These parasites are called zoonotic. These worms include hookworms, whipworms and roundworms.