What is the definition and types of host ?

Host

Persons or animal that provides subsistence or lodgement to an infectious agent as called as host.

Types of Host

1. Obligate host/ only host : an host which survive only one place. eg. Man for measles.

2. Primary host/ definitive host : when parasites passes it's sexual phase. eg. Mosquito for malaria parasites.

3. Secondary host/ intermediate host : when the parasites passes it's asexual life. eg. Man for malarial parasites.

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