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Parasites

"Parasites" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Parasites" by people in this website by year, and whether "Parasites" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 6 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2016
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