Aquinas explains man is not an overlord, a parasite, or just another part of creation.
It's a disease caused by a parasite that migrates from host to host via mosquito.
He was carrying out an act of altruism, and it was a parasite that got him.
Otherwise the corals would treat the algae as a parasite or invader and attempt to kill it.
The current process for manufacturing it is a rather messy one involving ergot, a parasite of rye.
If they're right, this means the cancer is literally jumping from one animal to the other, much like a parasite.
But it is just possible that a parasite's desire to get eaten by a cat is shaping the cultures of the world.
Dr. Barathan Sinniah, a parasite expert attached to a university in Perth, Australia, reckons the authorities must take more decisive action to clear mosquito breeding grounds.
It is hoped that using a parasite's DNA to hunt for weaknesses and then finding drugs to match will be more economical than trying to design drugs from scratch.
The Israeli acute paralysis virus (and, perhaps, the mystery virus) may have had such a devastating effect there because of the presence of a parasite called the varroa mite.
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Cases of Guinea worm, a parasite that slowly burns through the skin, are down from 3.5 million in 1986 to 25, 000 last year, thanks to efforts of the Carter Center and others.
The extreme microscope will enable a number of subjective and time-consuming tasks such as counting the number of cells staining positive for a biomarker or locating cells infected with a parasite like malaria, to be replaced by highly repeatable and robust computer vision applications.
To investigate, scientists looked at two common pesticides: neonicotinoids, which are used to control pests on oil seed rape and other crops, and a group of organophosphate chemicals called coumaphos, which are used to kill the Varroa mite, a parasite that attacks the honey bee.
According to the CDC, it takes less than a minute for E. coli to be inactivated if chlorine levels are adequate, about 16 minutes to control Hepatitis A virus, about 45 minutes to kill off the Giardia parasite and over 10 days for a Crypto parasite.
Agriculture Department spokeswoman Denise Feiber says the menacing creatures also carry a human parasite called rat lungworm, which is a form of meningitis and potentially deadly.
The famous bird has fallen victim to a deadly parasite which threatens to make this season the worst in living memory.
Warblers whose nests were thus protected did well, raising an average of four chicks to maturity in the absence of a cowbird parasite.
Facebook has always been the more dominant of the two, allowing Zynga to feed off an apparently healthier carcass like a mutant parasite.
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Knowing she had been to Africa, they thought it was "a bad parasite she had caught, " said her primary-care doctor, Walter "Bo" Griffey III.
Each has weak antimalarial activity on its own, but Watkins' experiments over several years showed the new combo to be a potent parasite killer.
Rather, it is selfish or junk DNA, a molecular parasite that, over many generations, has disseminated itself throughout the genome through some sort of transpositional process.
The novel probably won't win over critics who regard Mr. Grahame-Smith as a literary parasite whose sole talent consists of taking existing stories and tossing in monsters and gore.
At worst, however, it could behave as a bureaucratic parasite, propping up weaker operators at the expense of stronger ones, and restricting capital-raising by stronger subsidiaries in order to maintain its own equity control.
The 254-nanometer light kills the hardy waterborne polio virus, rotavirus (which causes vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration), the bacterium that causes cholera, the virus that gives rise to hepatitis A, and cysts of cryptosporidium (a nasty parasite).
Crops are often damaged by witchweed, a widespread crop parasite that usually germinates after a cereal crop is planted.
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But if a non-native parasite is carrying a disease, the new hosts may not be able to withstand it, says Lovett.
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