cyclozoonosis

cyclozoonosis
A zoonosis that requires more than one vertebrate host (but no invertebrate) for completion of the life cycle; e.g., various taenioid cestodes such as Taenia saginata and T. solium in which humans are an obligatory host; hydatid disease, a c. in which humans are not obligatory host. [cyclo- + G. zoon, animal, + nosos, disease]

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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