A macroparasite is typically modelled using the number of parasites carried by each host. Adult parasitic worms illustrate why within-host parasite burden, developmental stages, mating and host exposure heterogeneity matter beyond an infected/not-infected classification.
The within-host parasite burden is the number of parasites, or a specified parasite-load measure, carried by one host. A population's mean burden and its infected-host prevalence are different summaries of the burden distribution.

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