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Why is the animal or plant in which a parasite causes disease called a host?
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∙ 12y ago
Because, the animal acts as a host for the parasite. Also, the parasite acts as a guest so it's only right that the animal/plant is called the host.
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What is a bacteria that causes a disease called?
A virus or a parasite.
Can a parasite be a pathogen?
Parasite is an organism, that lives off another organism. Pathogen is something that causes disease in another organism. So the answer is "Yes". eg Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite.
What is a tiny single celled parasite?
trypanosoma that causes sleeping disease
Can the parasite that causes Chagas Disease inhabit the inside of the eyeball?
Yes.
What is Toxoplasma Gondii?
Toxoplasma Gondi, a single-celled parasite, causes a disease called toxoplasmosis. More than 60 million people in the United States may be infected with the toxoplasma parasite.
A tiny one celled animal with a changable body outline that causes a serious type of dysentery?
A parasite is a tiny one celled animal with a changeable body outline that causes a type of dysentery. The disease can also be caused by fleas, worms, ticks, and lice.
The parasite reaches the human's liver from which it releases the infection that causes the disease malaria or chickenpox?
That disease is malaria. It is not chicken pox.
Is Chagas' disease found all over the world?
Researchers believe that the parasite that causes the disease is only found in the Americas
What kind of parasite is Hematodinium perezi?
Hematodinium perezi is an internal parasite that infects crabs, including blue crabs, and causes bitter crab disease.
Is the parasite that causes malaria a type of euglenoid?
No, the parasite that causes malaria is not a type of euglenoid. The parasite that causes malaria is a type of protozoan.
What causes diabetes in farm animals?
Diabetes is a human disease, not an animal disease.
What disease causes fungus on cranberries?
The disease is called cultimanureity disease
