Parasitic diseases: Difference between revisions

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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"

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 ==Protozoa==
-*[[Entamoeba histolytica]]
+{{Protozoa}}
-*[[Giardia lamblia]]
-*[[Leishmania]]
-*[[Balantidium]]
-*[[Malaria]]
-*[[Cryptosporidium]]
-*[[Chagas Disease]]
-*[[African Sleeping Sickness]]
-*[[Toxoplasma gondii]]
-*[[Trichomonas vaginalis]]
-==Helminths (see also [[Worm Infections]])==
+==[[Helminths]]==
-===Cestodes (Tapeworms)===
+{{Helminth Types}}
-*[[Taenia saginata]]
-*[[Taenia solium (Cysticercosis)]]
-*Diphyllobothrium latum
-*Hymenolepis nana
-*Echinococcus granulosus
-===Trematodes (Flukes)===
-*Fasciola hepatica
-*Fasciolopsis buski
-*Opistorchis viverrini
-*Schistosoma spp
-**[[Schistosomiasis]]
-*Chlonorchis sinensis
-*Paragonimus spp.
-===Nematodes (Roundworms)===
+==[[Ectoparasites]]==
-*Ascaris lumbricoides
+{{Ectoparasite DDX}}
-*[[Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworm)]]
+{{Ectoparasite images}}
-*Filarial worms
-**[[Loa Loa]]
-**[[Onchocerciasis]]
-*Necator americanus / Ancylostoma duodenale (hookworm)
-*[[Dracunculus medinensis]]
-*Strongyloides stercoralis
-*Trichuris trichiura
-*Anisakis
-*Toxocara spp.
-*[[Trichinosis]]
-==Ectoparasites==
+==Marine Dermatitis==
-*[[Bedbugs]]
-*[[Lice]]
-*[[Myiasis]]
-==?==
 *[[Swimmer's Itch]]
 *[[Seabather's Eruption]]
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 *[[Microbiology (Main)]]
 *[[Travel Medicine]]
+==References==
+<references/>
 [[Category:ID]]
-[[Category:TropMed]]
+[[Category:Tropical Medicine]]