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definitive hosts - In the context of biology or parasitology, this phrase refers to organisms that harbor a particular parasite during its adult or sexual stage, allowing the parasite to reproduce and complete its life cycle
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Definitive hosts are mainly birds and mammals.
They parasitise aquatic vertebrates as definitive hosts.
Magna infections in definitive hosts are usually subclinical.
It occurs in the intestine of its definitive hosts.
Cats are the definitive hosts for the parasite.
Dogs and cats are good definitive hosts.
Humans are definitive hosts and mosquitoes are intermediate hosts.
Intermediate and definitive hosts.
The definitive hosts are the ticks.
These parasites require intermediate and definitive hosts to complete its life cycle.
Definitive hosts are frogs.
Setaria cervi is transmitted between mammals as definitive hosts and insects as intermediate hosts.
Most definitive hosts do not show any clinical sign or symptoms.
The worm has a life cycle that requires definitive hosts and intermediate hosts.
The normal definitive hosts for these species are dogs and cats.

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Acquisition of the parasite occurs more frequently among definitive hosts than among intermediate hosts.
Natural definitive hosts are humans.
Spinose ear ticks are a constant source of annoyance and irritation for their definitive hosts.
Humans can not be definitive hosts for these species of tapeworms.
The intermediate hosts are copepods and small fish, and the definitive hosts are waterbirds.
The most important definitive hosts of these trematodes are human beings or other mammals.
Members of the cat family are the definitive hosts of T gondii.
Humans are definitive hosts of Ascaris lumbricoides.
Primarily goats and sheep are the definitive hosts of H. contortus.
The definitive hosts for these Taenia species are canids.
All homeotherms and definitive hosts i . e.
The definitive hosts are ether dogs or other members of the Canidae family.
Humans are the only definitive hosts of T. solium.
The definitive hosts of the parasites are fish-eating birds and mammals.
It passes through pigs or other animals, as intermediate hosts, into humans, as definitive hosts.
In this case, the definitive hosts are infected from eating infected fish.
Definitive Hosts - animals in which the adult stage of the parasite develops.
The list of all natural definitive hosts of F. magna is presented in Table.
Definitive hosts include humans and various fish-eating mammals, primarily dogs, cats, and pigs.
Humans are also definitive hosts for N. salmincola.
Natural definitive hosts are fish-eating animals, dogs, cats, birds, and humans.
Rodents, especially rats, are definitive hosts and natural reservoirs of H. diminuta.
Natural definitive hosts are, dogs, cats, rats, and humans.
Unlike intermediate hosts, definitive hosts are usually not hurt very much by the infection.

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