Alternate host Sentence Examples
alternate host
In the case of oxen the alternate host of the parasite is a special tick (Smith and Kilborne).
Nevertheless, the fact, commented upon by several observers, that even here an infected fly is only infectious for a comparatively short period suggests that this species of fly, at any rate, is not the true alternate host in which the life-cycle of that particular Trypanosome is completed.
Probably this is not a haemal parasite, and lacks an alternate host.
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