DeCS

Descriptor English:

Parasites

Descriptor Spanish:

Parásitos

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	parásitos
Scope note:	Organismos invertebrados que viven sobre otro organismo (el huésped) o en su interior, y que se benefician a expensas de este. Tradicionalmente se han excluido de la definición de parásitos las BACTERIAS, los HONGOS, los VIRUS y las PLANTAS, aunque todos estos organismos puedan vivir parasitando.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Parasitos

Descriptor French:

Parasites

Tree number(s):

B01.050.500.714

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010271

Scope note:

Invertebrate organisms that live on or in another organism (the host), and benefit at the expense of the other. Traditionally excluded from definition of parasites are pathogenic BACTERIA; FUNGI; VIRUSES; and PLANTS; though they may live parasitically.

Annotation:

general or unspecified only: prefer specifics; in lower animals: Manual 22.20; relation to parasitic diseases: Manual 22.12-.20; parasites in food or parasitic contamination of food is indexed under FOOD PARASITOLOGY (IM) + specific parasite (IM) + specific food item /parasitol (IM) or (NIM)

Allowable Qualifiers:

AH anatomie et histologie
CH composition chimique
CL classification
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
GE génétique
IM immunologie
IP isolement et purification
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PH physiologie
PS parasitologie
PY pathogénicité
RE effets des radiations
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie

Anthelminthiques MeSH
Anti-infectieux MeSH
Antiprotozoaires MeSH
Charge parasitaire MeSH
Interactions hôte-parasite MeSH
Parasitologie alimentaire MeSH

DeCS ID:

10460

Unique ID:

D010271

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

1960/01/01

Date of Entry:

1999/01/01

Revision Date:

2011/06/24