Assertion: tapeworm's host | /r/HasProperty | human
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: in this case
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Fish tapeworm competes with its human host for vitamin B12 in the intestine and, in prolonged cases, can cause pernicious anemia.
text: Fish tapeworm competes with its human host for vitamin B12 in the intestine and, in prolonged cases, can cause pernicious anemia.
text: Tapeworms are a form of Intestinal Parasites, which requires a host (i.e. Humans) to continue development.
text: Tapeworms are a form of Intestinal Parasites, which requires a host (i.e. Humans) to continue development.
text: Tapeworms require human hosts to live out their life cycles.
text: In its adult phase, tapeworm absorbs nutrients from its primary host, which could be a dog, cat, cow, sheep, human, or other mammal.
text: The primary host (usually human) passes the eggs from an adult tapeworm through their stool, which can be absorbed into the soil through sewage, get into irrigation water, or just get out into the general environment where various animals or humans themselves may accidentally ingest the parasitic worm eggs.
text: " A tapeworm can grow quite long inside a human host.
text: It may survive in its human host for more than 20 years and can grow in excess of 20 feet (6.10 m).
text: The first host to be noticed in ancient times was human: human parasites such as hookworm are recorded from ancient Egypt from 3000 BC onwards, while in ancient Greece, the Hippocratic Corpus describes human bladder worm.
text: The primary host (usually human) passes the eggs from an adult tapeworm through their stool, which can be absorbed into the soil through sewage, get into irrigation water, or just get out into the general environment where various animals or humans themselves may accidentally ingest the parasitic worm eggs.
text: In low to medium numbers, these tapeworms cause minimal side effects in their human hosts (see section2b on symptoms seen in definitive host animals).
text: When confined to the intestinal tract, tapeworms cause minimal damage to their human host.
text: It may survive in its human host for more than 20 years and can grow in excess of 20 feet (6.10 m).
text: it forms a sac in which it will remain inactive until it gets into the body of another host (In this case the other host is humans).
text: The 'definitive' host (humans in this case) is the one where fertilization takes place.
text: The 'definitive' host (humans in this case) is the one where fertilization takes place.
text: With the fox as the main definitive host, only humans who handle and trap foxes or enter fox environments are likely to get the parasite.
text: The larvae are released into the environment from where the definitive hosts (humans and other mammals) get the infection.