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CIP PROGRAM: 26.0505
Parasitology.

Summary: A program that focuses on the scientific study of biological organisms living in ecologically exploitative and competitive relationships with host organisms, and the role of parasites in causing injury, disease, and environmental damage. Includes instruction in vector biology, immunoparasitology, medical parasitology, molecular biology of parasitical associations, veterinary and comparative parasitology, chemotherapeutics, and ecological and systematic parasitology.

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Related CIPs

26 BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES.
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26.0504 Virology.
26.0505 Parasitology.
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26.0507 Immunology.
26.0508 Microbiology and Immunology.
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26.0599 Microbiological Sciences and Immunology, Other.

Institutions granting degrees in Parasitology.

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