6 sentences with “parasites”

Tests for intestinal parasites or cholera were negative.

This simple organisation is due to the fact that viruses are "obligate" parasites, i.e. they cannot reproduce unless they parasitise a cell.

Sometimes, parasites that lodge in the ear reach the brain, causing serious damage that leads to terrible disorders in the animal's motor incoordination and disorientation.

Among almost all these nobles there was considerable contempt for merchants, who were often seen as parasites undermining good Christian morals and the proper order of society.

First, the janissaries slowly went from being elite soldiers and bureaucrats to parasites, living in luxurious "barracks" in Constantinople, manipulating weak sultans and spending more time enriching themselves in trade than serving the state.

Other issues that undermined Ottoman strength were internal. In particular, the janissaries (once elite slave soldiers who had defeated European forces during the height of Ottoman power) who had played such an important role in Ottoman victories under sultans such as Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent were no more than parasites living off state largesse in the mid-18th century, concentrating their time on enrichment through trade rather than military training.