Slide 1 Parasite Examples Assassin bugs (Triatoma) Malaria Tapeworms (Cestodes) Cholera (Shigella) transmission via dysentery Toilet seats, elevator buttons, shopping carts...…
Challenges facing Parasites, hosts as islands, how to infect new ones? High specificity, high fecundities, exploitation of vectors (mosquitoes) Intermediate and final hosts,…