| Most of the patients had a parasite count of more than 10 percent, which is critical. |
| The kissing bug does not pass the parasite to victims through its bite, but through its excrement. |
| The acanthocephalan Leptorhynchoides is a parasite of vertebrate carnivores which looks a little like a nemertine worm with training wheels. |
| The presence of a commensal parasite that can display mutualism within a clade of known pathogens suggests dynamic evolutionary interactions. |
| Masses of the parasite grow inside the krill, eat its organs, divide, and then burst out of their host's dead body in search of new victims. |
| There is a concern that weatherfish could be predators of native fishes or parasite and disease vectors. |
