Sentence examples for as intermediate hosts from inspiring English sources

Freshwater crustaceans can serve as intermediate hosts for the lung fluke, Paragonimus (a flatworm, phylum Platyhelminthes).

With very few exceptions, mollusks act as intermediate hosts in digenean life cycles.

A few harmful species can inflict painful injuries; some others serve as intermediate hosts for parasites of humans.

Snails of the families Planorbidae, Bulinidae and Lymnaeidae acting as intermediate hosts [3].

Both species use felids as definitive hosts and a broad spectrum of warm-blooded animals as intermediate hosts.

Taenia taeniaeformis is a globally distributed cestode, which uses felids as definitive and rodents as intermediate hosts.

The apicomplexan, Toxoplasma gondii, infects all warm-blooded animals as intermediate hosts but only felids as definitive hosts.

We tested the hypothesis that brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) harbor Sarcocystis neurona, the agent of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), and act as intermediate hosts for this parasite.

Hammondia hammondi and Toxoplasma gondii are two related coccidian parasites, with cats as definitive hosts and warm-blooded animals as intermediate hosts.

These results show that some cowbirds have S. neurona as well as S. falcatula in their leg muscles and can act as intermediate hosts for both parasites.

For example: Adults of Diphyllobothrium infest fish, and the juveniles use copepod crustaceans as intermediate hosts.