Parasites Vocabulary

Are specific drugs used to remove parasites from the intestinal tract and break the life cycle

• Anthelmintic

• Chigger

• Unthriftiness

• Host

Part of the group of roundworms, common in foals. Large and Robust

• Bot

• Ascarid

• Strongyle

• Nematode

Fly larvae that are found in the stomach. Eggs are laid in the fall usually on the front legs

• Chiggers

• Lice

• Strongyles

• Bots

The larval stage of the harvest mite

• Bots

• Fluke

• Chigger

• Nematode

An inflammation of the skin

• Mange

• Anthelmintic

• Dermatitis

• Ectoparasite

Parasites that live on the outside of the host

• Ectoparasite

• Roundworms

• Fluke

• Chigger

A trematode parasite that is flat and leaf shaped

• Ascarid

• Bot

• Chigger

• Fluke

The animal from which a parasite obtains its food.

• Anthelmintic

• Host

• Strongyle

• Summer Sore

A host of a parasite before it's final host

• Intermediate Host

• Dermatitis

• Host

• Protozoan

A broad spectrum antiparsitic medication

• Dewormer

• Ivermectin

• Dermatitis

• Host