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Eco Evo Exam3(c.15)
Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Infection resistance | The ability of a host to prevent an infection from occurring. |
Infection tolerance | The ability of a host to minimize the harm that an infection can cause. |
Parasite load | The number of parasites of a given species that an individual host can harbor. |
Ectoparasite | A parasite that lives on the outside of an organism. |
Endoparasite | A parasite that lives inside an organism. |
Emerging infectious disease | A disease that is newly discovered, or has been rare and then suddenly increases in occurrence. |
Horizontal transmission | When a parasite moves between individuals other than parents and their offspring. |
Vector | An organism that a parasite uses to disperse from one host to another. |
Vertical transmission | When a parasite is transmitted from a parent to its offspring. |
Reservoir species | Species that can carry a parasite but do not succumb to the disease that the parasite causes in other species. |
Susceptible-Infected-Resistant (S-I-R) model | The simplest model of infectious disease transmission that incorporates immunity. |
t-test | A statistical test that determines if the distributions of data from two groups are significantly different. |