Parasites
"Parasites" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Invertebrate organisms that live on or in another organism (the host), and benefit at the expense of the other. Traditionally excluded from definition of parasites are pathogenic BACTERIA; FUNGI; VIRUSES; and PLANTS; though they may live parasitically.
| Descriptor ID |
D010271
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.714
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Parasites" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Parasites" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Parasites" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Diaz Soria CL, Attenborough T, Lu Z, Fontenla S, Graham J, Hall C, Thompson S, Andrews TGR, Rawlinson KA, Berriman M, Rinaldi G. Single-cell transcriptomics of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni first intra-molluscan stage reveals tentative tegumental and stem-cell regulators. Sci Rep. 2024 03 12; 14(1):5974.