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Example sentences for: parasite

How can you use “parasite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

What I heard him say was: If the parasite lives, but the host dies, it really can't be described as a symbiotic relationship.
Despite these issues, estimates of plasma PfHRP2 concentrations may be useful as a research tool to stratify patients' parasite loads, say the authors.
The facts that the parasite culture was asynchronous, i.e., contained all three major stages (ring, trophozoite, and schizont) (data not shown) and that the effect of dsRNA was severe, suggest that PfPP1 is required for cell cycle progression at all stages of the parasite.
He is--to use the language of cultural authoritarians--an unproductive social parasite who lives for his own pleasure.
If the variance in parasite densities within scat samples of a single individual increased with the mean it is likely that the distances become larger for samples with higher parasite loads.