Diferencia entre revisiones de «Parasitic diseases»
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*[[African Sleeping Sickness]] | *[[African Sleeping Sickness]] | ||
*[[Swimmer's Itch]] | *[[Swimmer's Itch]] | ||
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==[[Larva Currens]]== | ==[[Larva Currens]]== | ||
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==[[Dracunculosis]]== | ==[[Dracunculosis]]== | ||
Revisión del 14:12 6 sep 2014
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"
List
- Chagas Disease
- Lice
- Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
- Myiasis
- Cysticercosis
- Loa Loa
- African Sleeping Sickness
- Swimmer's Itch
- Seabather's Eruption
- Pinworm
Larva Currens
- Thumbprint sign: periumbilical purpura
- Strongyloides stercoralis
Dracunculosis
Trichinosis
- Trichinella spiralis
- Splinter hemorrhages
- Pork, polar bear, walrus
M. Opercularis
- Wolly caterpillar
- Train-track hemorrages
- 'Erucism' inflammation around hairs, can be chronic, can cause systemic effects
Cimex lenticularis
- Bedbugs
- Hep B carrier's