• Question: What tips of parasites are there?

    Asked by anon-355923 to Rebecca W on 15 Mar 2023.
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      Rebecca Woods answered on 15 Mar 2023:


      Broadly I’d classify them as endo (inside) and exo (outside) parasites to describe if they live inside or on a host. There are also different ways to classify parasites using the taxonomical system (domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species), such as the order kinetoplastida which includes the genus’ trypanosoma and leishmania, which cause trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis.

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