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