Ectoparasitic Infestations
"Ectoparasitic Infestations" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Infestations by PARASITES which live on, or burrow into, the surface of their host's EPIDERMIS. Most ectoparasites are ARTHROPODS.
| Descriptor ID |
D004478
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.858.211
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| Concept/Terms |
Ectoparasitic Infestations- Ectoparasitic Infestations
- Ectoparasitic Infestation
- Infestation, Ectoparasitic
- Infestations, Ectoparasitic
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ectoparasitic Infestations" by people in Profiles.
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Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity but not divergence among locally adapted host populations. J Evol Biol. 2014 May; 27(5):960-74.