RT Book, Section
A1 Levinson, Warren
A1 Chin-Hong, Peter
A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A.
A1 Nussbaum, Jesse
A1 Schwartz, Brian
SR Print(0)
ID 1171926975
T1 Ectoparasites That Cause Human Disease
T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 16e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260116717
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1171926975
RD 2024/04/19
AB Ectoparasites  are  organisms  that  are  found  either  on  the  skin  or  only  in  the  superficial  layers  of  the  skin.  Ecto  is  a  prefix  meaning  “outer.”  Virtually  all  ectoparasites  are  arthropods;  that  is,  they  are  invertebrates  with  a  chitinous  exoskeleton.