(Part 2, General Veterinary Parasitology, VPA)
Topic: Modes of transmission of parasites and methods of dissemination of the infective stages of the parasites.
Modes of Transmission and Methods of Dissemination of Parasites
Description:
Modes of Transmission of Parasites: Parasites have distinct routes of entering a host. Parasites are transmitted from one animal to another by
- Ingestion
- Skin penetration
- Contact
- Predation
- Coitus
- Transplacental/Tranmammary transmission
Methods of Dissemination of Parasites: Most of the parasites leave the host passively through excretions of the host.
- Many exit from the hosts through faeces as eggs.
- Few exit through urine and genital discharges.
- Some parasites are imbibed by arthropods inadvertently when they feed on a host (eg. Malarial parasites transmitted by mosquitoes)
- Permanent ectoparasites such as louse and flea exit the hosts actively by either crawling or jumping on to another host during moments of contact between hosts.
- Few parasites exit actively from the hosts (mother) to their foetuses through placenta (transuterine route)
- Some parasites leave the host through the medium of milk to infect the young ones (transmammary route). »Read more in PDF.
Note: The following pdf is the VPA note of (Unit 1) General Veterinary Parasitology, Part 2 of BVSc & AH. *VPA- Veterinary Parasitology.
Topics of the PDF file of 'Modes of Transmission and Methods of Dissemination of Parasites':
Introduction / Modes of Transmission of Parasites - Through Ingestion, Skin Penetration, Contact and Predation, Entry through Nostrils, External Genitalia, Transplacental or Transmammary Transmission / Methods of Dissemination of Parasites.
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