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.

Descriptor ID	D010271
MeSH Number(s)	B01.050.500.714
Concept/Terms	Parasites Parasites Parasite

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Organisms [B]
Eukaryota [B01]
Animals [B01.050]
Invertebrates [B01.050.500]
Parasites [B01.050.500.714]

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Bar chart showing 8 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2020 and 2021 and 2022

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2011	1	0	1
2020	1	1	2
2021	2	0	2
2022	2	0	2
2023	1	0	1

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Fola AA, Moser KA, Aydemir O, Hennelly C, Kobayashi T, Shields T, Hamapumbu H, Musonda M, Katowa B, Matoba J, Stevenson JC, Norris DE, Thuma PE, Wesolowski A, Moss WJ, Bailey JA, Juliano JJ. Temporal and spatial analysis of Plasmodium falciparum genomics reveals patterns of parasite connectivity in a low-transmission district in Southern Province, Zambia. Malar J. 2023 Jul 07; 22(1):208.

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Rath CT, Vivarini ?C, Dos Santos JV, Medina JM, Saliba AM, Mottram JC, Lima APCA, Calegari-Silva TC, Pereira RM, Lopes UG. Toll-Like Receptor 3 (TLR3) Is Engaged in the Intracellular Survival of the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis. Infect Immun. 2022 09 15; 90(9):e0032422.

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Morais MCC, Silva D, Milagre MM, de Oliveira MT, Pereira T, Silva JS, Costa LDF, Minoprio P, Junior RMC, Gazzinelli R, de Lana M, Nakaya HI. Automatic detection of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi in blood smears using a machine learning approach applied to mobile phone images. PeerJ. 2022; 10:e13470.

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Burle-Caldas GA, Dos Santos NSA, de Castro JT, Mugge FLB, Grazielle-Silva V, Oliveira AER, Pereira MCA, Reis-Cunha JL, Dos Santos AC, Gomes DA, Bartholomeu DC, Moretti NS, Schenkman S, Gazzinelli RT, Teixeira SMR. Disruption of Active Trans-Sialidase Genes Impairs Egress from Mammalian Host Cells and Generates Highly Attenuated Trypanosoma cruzi Parasites. mBio. 2022 02 22; 13(1):e0347821.

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Molina J, Nikolic D, Jeevarathanam JR, Abzalimov R, Park EJ, Pedales R, Mojica EE, Tandang D, McLaughlin W, Wallick K, Adams J, Novy A, Pell SK, van Breemen RB, Pezzuto JM. Living with a giant, flowering parasite: metabolic differences between Tetrastigma loheri Gagnep. (Vitaceae) shoots uninfected and infected with Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) and potential applications for propagation. Planta. 2021 Nov 29; 255(1):4.

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Li H, Abraham A, Gazzola D, Hu Y, Beamer G, Flanagan K, Soto E, Rus F, Mirza Z, Draper A, Vakalapudi S, Stockman C, Bain P, Urban JF, Ostroff GR, Aroian RV. Recombinant Paraprobiotics as a New Paradigm for Treating Gastrointestinal Nematode Parasites of Humans. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2021 02 17; 65(3).

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Quintana MDP, Smith-Togobo C, Moormann A, Hviid L. Endemic Burkitt lymphoma - an aggressive childhood cancer linked to Plasmodium falciparum exposure, but not to exposure to other malaria parasites. APMIS. 2020 Feb; 128(2):129-135.

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Prior KF, Rijo-Ferreira F, Assis PA, Hirako IC, Weaver DR, Gazzinelli RT, Reece SE. Periodic Parasites and Daily Host Rhythms. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 02 12; 27(2):176-187.

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Martin RK, Damle SR, Valentine YA, Zellner MP, James BN, Lownik JC, Luker AJ, Davis EH, DeMeules MM, Khandjian LM, Finkelman FD, Urban JF, Conrad DH. B1 Cell IgE Impedes Mast Cell-Mediated Enhancement of Parasite Expulsion through B2 IgE Blockade. Cell Rep. 2018 02 13; 22(7):1824-1834.

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Rich SM, Xu G. Resolving the phylogeny of malaria parasites. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Aug 09; 108(32):12973-4.

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