definitive host

Until recently, the only known definitive host was the domestic dog.

Most definitive hosts do not show any clinical sign or symptoms.

The definitive hosts for these species are cats and dogs.

The most common definitive hosts are the domestic dog, cat, and red fox.

Reproduction of the parasite only occurs in the definitive host.

Humans cannot be definitive hosts for these species of tapeworms.

In fact, pigs are recognised as the principal definitive host.

The next definitive host in the life cycle is infected exclusively through blood feeding.

They cause more damage to this host than it does to its definitive host.

Detailed life cycle studies have not been carried out with wild animal definitive hosts.

The opossum is the definitive host of the disease.

Adults are in the small intestines of vertebrate definitive hosts.

These mollusc are eaten by a vertebrate, the definitive host.

Definitive host can be 27 species of fish.

According to several American authors, three types of definitive host exist:

Intrinsic incubation period is the time taken by an organism to complete its development in the definitive host.

It occurs in the intestine of its definitive hosts.

A long list of experimental definitive hosts include the hamster and wood rat.

The definitive host is known to get infected by consuming infected fish.

The definitive host is the white-tailed deer, in which it normally has no ill effects.

The definitive host could be small aquatic animals which are ingested accidentally by tigers.

The definitive host range is very broad and includes many herbivorous mammals, including humans.

The mosquito serves as the definitive host and the human host is the intermediate.

Adult flukes occur in the liver of the definitive host and feed on blood.

Biochemical and haematological profiles are little investigated in definitive hosts.