"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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.714
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Parasites" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of sanitation system types on residential and environmental presence of human waste and parasites in Alabama. Infect Dis Poverty. 2025 Jul 11; 14(1):65.
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Epidemiology of intestinal parasite infections and multiparasitism and their impact on growth and hemoglobin levels during childhood in tropical Ecuador: A longitudinal study using molecular detection methods. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2025 Jun; 19(6):e0013004.
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Parasite contamination of soil in different Peruvian locations and outside built environments. Parasit Vectors. 2025 Apr 05; 18(1):134.
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Parasitic Contamination of Soil in the Southern United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Sep 04; 111(3):506-514.
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Environmental Detection of Parasites in the Marginalized Paiute Reservations Compared to a Nearby Area. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Mar 06; 110(3):457-459.
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Leishmania surface molecule lipophosphoglycan-TLR2 interaction moderates TPL2-mediated TLR2 signalling for parasite survival. Immunology. 2024 01; 171(1):117-130.
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Development of chimeric protein as a multivalent vaccine for human Kinetoplastid infections: Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. Vaccine. 2023 08 23; 41(37):5400-5411.
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Engineered gut symbiont inhibits microsporidian parasite and improves honey bee survival. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 06 20; 120(25):e2220922120.
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First Draft Genome Assembly of Root-Lesion Nematode Pratylenchus scribneri Generated Using Long-Read Sequencing. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Apr 15; 24(8).
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A Plasmodium falciparum lysophospholipase regulates host fatty acid flux via parasite lipid storage to enable controlled asexual schizogony. Cell Rep. 2023 04 25; 42(4):112251.