Sentences with phrase «infectious parasites»

Only cooking can adequately kill infectious parasites and bacteria.

«It was very humbling,» says Poukchanski, who plans to study infectious parasites for her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology.

Your dog's coprophagia could pose a serious health threat to human because bacteria like Salmonella, E. coli and infectious parasites from the stool can easily be spread to family members.

As if the itching, scratching and biting caused by fleas weren't bad enough for your dog, these creepy crawly insects are leaving your pet susceptible to infectious parasites like tapeworms.

A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padua in Italy, Pernas studies an infectious parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.

Less common than roundworms, hookworms are infectious parasites, as well.

Some of that waste contains an infectious parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, which has recently caused toxoplasmosis epidemics in otherwise healthy people, not only in pregnant women or people with weakened immune systems.

Keep pets regularly groomed to avoid any fecal matter from being caught in fur where it can expose you to infectious parasites.

Furthermore, many of these microscopic parasites resist common disinfectants used to clean cages, so they persist in the animals» environments and continuously re-infect these pets as they eat in their cages; the infected pets continue to shed these infectious parasites in their stool, and the vicious cycle of re-infection is established.

Domestic cats are also the necessary host for the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis to complete its life cycle and may shed hundreds of millions of the infectious parasite in its feces.