Parasitic diseases
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Background
- Although any organism that "lives in or on another and takes its nourishment from that other organism" is technically a parasite, in common medical parlance "parasitic diseases" refer to infections due to protozoa, helminths, arthropods, or other "macroparasites"
Protozoa
Protozoa
- African Sleeping Sickness
- Balantidium coli
- Chagas Disease
- Cryptosporidium
- Entamoeba histolytica
- Giardia lamblia
- Leishmania
- Malaria
- Microsporidium
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Trichomonas vaginalis
Helminths
Helminth infections
Cestodes (Tapeworms)
- Taenia saginata
- Taenia solium (Cysticercosis)
- Diphyllobothrium latum
- Hymenolepis nana
- Echinococcus granulosus
Trematodes (Flukes)
- Fasciola hepatica
- Fasciolopsis buski
- Opistorchis viverrini
- Schistosoma spp
- Chlonorchis sinensis
- Paragonimus spp.
Nematodes (Roundworms)
- Ascaris lumbricoides
- Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworm)
- Filarial worms
- Hookworm
- Necator americanus
- Ancylostoma duodenale
- Cutaneous larva migrans (Ancylostoma braziliense)
- Dracunculiasis
- Strongyloides stercoralis
- Trichuris trichiura (Whipworm)
- Anisakis
- Toxocara spp.
- Trichinosis
Ectoparasites
Domestic U.S. Ectoparasites
See also travel-related skin conditions
Ectoparasite & Related Images
Scabies
Ixodes tick
