parasitic disease

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parasitic
adjective
uk
/ˌpær.əˈsɪt.ɪk/us
/ˌper.əˈsɪt̬.ɪk/
Parasitic organisms live on other animals or plants of a different type and feed ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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Reducing the global burden of humanparasiticdisease.
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Therefore, the evaluation of other techniques for diagnosing thisparasiticdiseaseis very important.
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The specificity of production of these chemokines in thisparasiticdiseasemay help to identify therapeutic strategies to inhibit inflammation.
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The com' ' mission had been established by the government a year before to fight malaria, aparasiticdiseasepredominant in rural areas.
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They were going into a district swarming with aparasiticdiseaseknown as bilharzia.
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Malaria is aparasiticdisease, which is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.
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At times this can be surprisingly difficult - in tropical areas diagnostic laboratory provision can vary from nil to sophisticated, but is most denied to those most affected byparasiticdisease.
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He died in 1894 as a result of aparasiticdisease.
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He had to interrupt his journey in 1904 because he came down with aparasiticdisease.
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They represent one of the most prevalent forms ofparasiticdisease.
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These compounds include eflornithine a drug used to treat theparasiticdiseasesleeping sickness.
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This trematode causes schistosomiasis in humans, which is the second most commonparasiticdiseaseafflicting humans.
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Schistosomiasis alone is the second most prevalentparasiticdiseaseof all times in humans, next only to malaria.
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He wrote about this research in his thesis, published posthumously in 1895 after his death from aparasiticdisease.
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Around the world, malaria is the most significantparasiticdiseaseof humans, and claims the lives of more children worldwide than any other infectious disease.
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They are, however, rare in zoos because they are susceptible to infection andparasiticdiseaseif captured from the wild, and do not readily reproduce.
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Onchocerciasis is aparasiticdiseasetransmitted through the bite of the small black fly that breeds along the banks of fast-flowing rivers.
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