Sentence examples for definitive host from inspiring English sources

Man is the definitive host; cattle serve as the intermediate host.

In the definitive host, techniques for direct parasite identification include copro-antigen and copro-DNA detection.

The definitive host stage is required for reproduction and the adult life phase.

Once again, no further development occurs unless the cystacanth is ingested by its definitive host, a vertebrate.

Disease produced in related host species may be either milder or more severe than in the definitive host.

Parasites with indirect life cycles are characterized by two host stages, which require a definitive host and an intermediate host.

Within the intermediate host, parasite development occurs, after which it can be transmitted to a definitive host.

Some attack a single host, others require one or two intermediate hosts as well as a final, or definitive, host during their life cycle.

Non-linearity and the direct and delayed responses of definitive host contamination in relation to intermediate host population variations were recorded.

The dog is also known as a definitive host, shedding oocysts involved in the transmission of the infection to intermediate hosts.

They are also the only known definitive host of the coccidian parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, the population-level impacts of which are unknown in any species.