Sentence examples for killer parasites from inspiring English sources

In other studies of obligate killer parasites, even stronger effects of within-host competition between propagules of the same parasite clone have been found [ 7, 60].

All infections were brought to lethality when IL-10R was blocked, but this effect was most pronounced for the normally benign clones CW and AS, which were converted from avirulent to killer parasites.

It therefore seems likely that these dynamics may be broadly similar for most semelparous, obligate killer parasites, and that maximum dispersal is the best strategy for these parasites, as well as any others that exhibit strong within-host competition.

N. whitei is an obligate killer parasite that infects young T. castaneum larvae.

Note that because the ant hosts were adult individuals that do not grow any further, the potential advantage to an obligate killer parasite of delaying host death to allow further host growth before semelparous reproduction [ 1], will not apply in this system.

Though Carter has not mentioned it as a source, the device--a killer extraterrestrial parasite embedded deep in an ice sheet--also occurs in the 1992 Peter Hoeg novel "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow".

While lumefantrine is the more effective killer of asexual parasites, piperaquine possesses a much longer half-life and therefore confers a longer window of protection against reinfection.

THE big news in the California wine country two years ago was the victorious conclusion to the 15-year, multimillion-dollar war against phylloxera, a parasite killer that eventually wiped out some 50,000 acres of prime California vineyard land.

The World Health Organization reports that leishmaniasis kills some 60,000 people a year and is the second largest parasite killer after malaria.

Leishmaniasis is the second largest parasitic killer disease caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania, transmitted by the bite of sand flies.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani, is the second largest parasitic killer after malaria, with more than 200 million people currently at risk from infection.