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Definitive Host

Known as: Primary Host 
The host in which a parasite spends the sexual stage of its life cycle.
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Enhanced resistancy of thioredoxin-transgenic mice against influenza virus-induced pneumonia.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Innate immune response mechanisms in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus patients assessed by flow cytoenzymology.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Interaction of Mycobacterium avium with Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells
ABSTRACT The mechanism by which mycobacteria elicit class I-restricted T-cell responses remains undefined because these organisms… 
1997
1997
Mitochondrial DNA Variation among Muscidifurax spp. (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), Pupal Parasitoids of Filth Flies (Diptera)
Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and sequencing analyses were used to characterize… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Progenitor cell hyperplasia with rare development of myeloid leukemia in interleukin 11 bone marrow chimeras
Post 5-fluorouracil-treated murine bone marrow cells infected with a recombinant retrovirus (murine stem cell virus-interleukin… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
T lymphocyte cytotoxicity with natural varicella-zoster virus infection and after immunization with live attenuated varicella vaccine.
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) specific cytotoxicity was investigated during acute primary VZV infection, in naturally immune… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Experimental transmission of duck hepatitis B virus to pekin ducks and to domestic geese
We investigated experimental transmission of duck hepatitis B virus to its original host, the domestic Pekin duck, and to three… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Mutational cloning in Streptomyces and the isolation of antibiotic production genes.
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
H–2 region product as determinant in immune cytolysis of syngeneic tumour cells by anti-MSV T lymphocytes
THE existence of cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL) specific for antigenically related tumour cells during oncornavirus-induced… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Metabolism of steroids in insects.
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