Glossary of Terms |
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Aspergillosis |
The name given to a wide variety of diseases caused by fungi of the genus Aspergillus |
Ectoparasite |
External parasites such as fleas, ticks and lice |
Endoparasite |
Internal parasites such as worms and flukes |
ESCCAP |
European Scientific Counsel Companion Animal Parasites |
Epidemiology |
The branch of medical science concerned with the occurrence and control of diseases in populations |
Flea |
The common name for small, wingless, blood-sucking insects of the order Siphonaptera that have legs adapted for jumping and are parasitic on warm-blooded animals |
Flukes |
Parasitic flat worms which infest the liver of various animals |
Fungal |
Caused by a fungus |
Helminthology |
The study of worms, especially parasitic worms |
Host |
An organism that harbors a virus, parasite |
Immunology |
The branch of medicine concerned with the study of immunity |
Larva/larvae |
A juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, a caterpillar to a butterfly) |
Lice |
There are two types of lice (the sucking lice and the biting lice) |
Parasite |
An organism that lives on or inside another organism |
Parasitology |
The study of parasites and associated diseases |
Pathogenesis |
The origination and development of disease |
Phylogeny |
The evolutionary history of a species |
Protozoa |
Single cell organisms |
Tick |
A small parasitic creature typically living on the skin of warm-blooded animals |
Toxoplasmosis |
A parasitic disease caused by protozoan infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii |
Trichinellosis |
A parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork or wild game infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm |
Vector-borne disease |
Disease carried by a host or parasite organism to another organism |
Worm |
A parasite that lives inside and feeds off their host |
Zoonotic |
An infectious disease that is able to be transmitted (by a vector) from animals, either wild or domestic to humans |