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host

In biology, an organism that is parasitized by another. In commensalism, the partner that does not benefit may also be called the host.

host

Large computer that supports a number of smaller computers or terminals that are connected to it via a network. Hosts may be mainframe computers that service large number of terminals or green screens, or, for example, Internet hosts that serve Web pages and files to personal computers attached via the Internet.



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However, these studies did not clarify whether animals other than civets were involved in transmission of SARS-CoV to humans or whether civets were an intermediate host or the natural reservoir host of SARS-CoVs.
Review of bats and SARS by Eaton, Bryan T. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Scientists don't know why California trout are spared, but suspect that the faster-moving water in California might reduce the number of tubafex worms which serve as an intermediate host for the whirling disease parasites.
WHIRLING DISEASE HITS CASITAS BAD TROUT IMPORTED FROM IDAHO by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Overgrazing may have promoted population outbreaks of small mammal intermediate hosts of the parasite and increased the density of the small mammal intermediate host, especially O.
Pasture types and Echinococcus multilocularis, Tibetan communities by Giraudoux, Patrick / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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