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dodder
Life cycle of the tick Ixodes scapularis
Malaria life cycle
brood parasitism
Parasitoid wasps
Zombie-ant fungus
parasitic dodder
Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite
European mistletoe
Do mushrooms need sunlight?
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Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Campbell, William
William Campbell
Irish-born American parasitologist
Smith, Theobald
Theobald Smith
American pathologist
Manson, detail of an oil painting by J. Young Hunter, 1912; in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London
Sir Patrick Manson
Scottish parasitologist
Maurice Caullery
Maurice Caullery
French biologist

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Scolex (head) of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The hooks of the scolex enable the tapeworm to attach to the intestinal wall.
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