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1970 ascariasis poisoning incident

At least seven people claimed to have been infected with parasitic worm eggs by Eric Kranz, a former postgraduate student from Hempstead, New York.

Bill Cane

There he experimented with propagation techniques, finding success in areas deemed near impossible by others including successfully growing semi-parasitic Exocarpos species and propagating Eucalyptus species, Persoonia chamaepeuce and Calectasia intermedia (Blue Tinsel Lily) from cuttings.

Birch leafminer

Presently there is no commercially available biological control agent to control Amber marked birch leafminers, however Canadian trees in the Edmonton area have been successfully controlled with releases of a parasitic wasp, Lathrolestes luteolator.

Blastophaga psenes

psenes is also the vector of the plant parasitic nematode Schistonchus caprifici (Aphelenchoididae).

C. europaea

Cuscuta europaea, the greater dodder, a parasitic plant species native to Europe

C. M. Gupta

He has extensively contributed in the areas of drug targeting in parasitic diseases and membrane phospholipids transbilayer dynamics, and is currently working on elucidation of actin cytoskeletal network in Leishmania.

C. marginatum

Clinostomum marginatum, the yellow grub, a parasitic fluke species found in many freshwater fish in North America

Cat tapeworm

Dipylidium caninum, a tapeworm often infesting domestic dogs and cats whose intermediate host is parasitic fleas

Cat tapeworms

Dipylidium caninum, a tapeworm often infesting domestic cats whose intermediate host is parasitic fleas

Christianity in Bangladesh

Having worked in Bangladesh as a missionary since 1952, Father Richard William Timm, C.S.C. won the Ramon Magsaysay Award Peace and International Understanding, the Asian Nobel Prize, in 1987 in recognition of his work as biologist, combating parasitic worms, and relief efforts with Caritas (charity).

Common gundi

The parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii was first described in 1908 in Tunis by Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux within the tissues of the gundi.

Cucurbitin

Cucurbitin causes degenerative changes in the reproductive organs of parasitic flatworms called flukes.

Dolichovespula

Dolichovespula adulterina (Buysson, 1905) – parasitic yellowjacket

Encarsia perplexa

Encarsia perplexa is a tiny parasitic wasp, a parasitoid of the citrus blackfly, Aleurocanthus woglumi, which is a global pest of citrus trees.

Filopaludina

from Vietnam serves as a second intermediate host for the parasitic fluke Echinostoma revolutum.

Gemmocystis

This genus is parasitic on scleractinian corals (Agaricia agaricites, Dendrogyra cylindrus, Diploria strigosa, Meandrina meandrites, Montastraea cavernosa, Porites astreoides, Porites porites) and is found in the Caribbean.

Globodera tabacum

Globodera tabacum, commonly known as a tobacco cyst nematode, is a plant parasitic nematode that mainly infests the tobacco plant, but also plants in Solanaceae family.

Glossary of plant morphology

Parasitic – using another plant as a source of nourishment.

H. africana

Hydnora africana, an achlorophyllous plant native to southern Africa parasitic on the roots of members of the Euphorbiaceae

Hemolysis

Because the feeding process of the Plasmodium parasites damages red blood cells, malaria is sometimes called "parasitic hemolysis" in medical literature.

Homalometron pallidum

He was criticized for doing so in 1907 by the German parasitologist, Arthur Looss, who considered the description insufficient, pointing out that it was not possible to use this description to distinguish this species from other similar parasitic flukes.

Hypochrysops

Myrmecodia species have certain superficial resemblances to "mistletoes", but are epiphytic, not markedly parasitic, and are not in any parasitic plant family; they are in fact in the coffee family, Rubiaceae.

Ian O'Doherty

In January 2014 the Press Ombudsman upheld a complaint against O'Doherty for a column in which he described members of the Roma community as "a parasitic, ethnic underclass".

Ichneumonoidea

An example is the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus, which parasitizes the butterfly Phengaris rebeli.

Jean-Jacques Kieffer

Jean-Jacques Kieffer (1857 Guinkirchen–1925 Bitche) was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in the study of parasitic insects.

Josef Fahringer

A specialist in this group, he wrote many other scientific papers on them and other parasitic Hymenoptera.

Kentropyx calcarata

Kentropyx calcarata specimens are sometimes plagued by the parasitic Protist, Plasmodium lepidoptiformis.

Marine Life of the Straits of Messina

Benthic species of importance are Pilumnus inermis, previously considered and which is exclusively Atlantic; Errina aspera (Hydrozoa), a famous endemic species of the Strait of Messina, on which lives a parasitic sea snail (Pedicularia sicula); found between 80 and 110 m.

Mount Pirongia

Among the variety of plants and wildlife, Wood Rose or Dactylanthus taylorii, a rare and endangered parasitic flowering plant, can be found on the ridges of Mount Pirongia.

Mundame

By 1970, the community was described as a "forest village", with a relatively high level of infection by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent of river blindness.

Paul Wilhelm Magnus

Nearly half of his more than 600 works concerned mycological topics, and he is remembered for his investigations of the parasitic fungi families Ustilaginaceae and Uredinaceae.

Pediococcus acidilactici

Another potential benefit of using them as Probiotics is their use as alternative medicines against infectious parasitic pathogens like Eimeria in broiler-chicken.

Pilobolus

The forcible discharge mechanism of Pilobolus is exploited by parasitic nematodes including lungworms in the genus Dictyocaulus.

Pseudoboletus

The genus contains two species found in north temperate areas that grow in a parasitic association with species of Scleroderma and Pisolithus.

Raymond Huo

They were in their early thirties when they volunteered to move from the Capital City to Qianshan to help the local population fight Schistosoma, a parasitic disease.

Root-knot nematode

Preceded by induced changes in eggshell permeability, hatching may involve physical and/or enzymatic processes in plant-parasitic nematodes.

Schistonchus

Schistonchus laevigatus and Schistonchus aureus are plant-parasitic nematodes associated with the pollinator Pegoscapus assuetus and Pegoscapus mexicanus respectively and syconia of Ficus citrifolia and Ficus aurea respectively.

Sleep disorder

Sleeping sickness - a parasitic disease which can be transmitted by the Tsetse fly.

Sound localization

The tiny parasitic fly Ormia ochracea has become a model organism in sound localization experiments because of its unique ear.

T. leonina

Toxascaris leonina, a common parasitic roundworm species found in dogs, cats, foxes and related host species

Tasman National Park

Three species of Euphrasia (a semi-parasitic, herbaceous flowering plant commonly known as eyebright) are found only in Tasman National Park.

The Body Snatchers

The Host (2008), a novel by Stephenie Meyer that depicts a world wherein the human population has already been taken over by parasitic aliens

Umuagwo

In a 2006 study of the prevalence of Urinary schistosomiasis, a chronic parasitic disease caused by the trematode worm Schistosoma haematobium, Umuagwo was the only town in the LGA that had no cases of infection.

Vampire fish

Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), a genera of parasitic catfish native to the Amazon river

Varroa sensitive hygiene

Varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) is a behavioral trait of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in which bees detect and remove bee pupae that are infested by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.


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