Diferencia entre revisiones de «Parasitic diseases»
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==Helminths== | ==Helminths== | ||
===Cestodes (Tapeworms)=== | ===Cestodes (Tapeworms)=== | ||
*Taenia saginata | *[[Taenia saginata]] | ||
*Taenia solium (Cysticercosis)]] | *[[Taenia solium (Cysticercosis)]] | ||
*Diphyllobothrium latum | *Diphyllobothrium latum | ||
*Hymenolepis nana | *Hymenolepis nana | ||
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*Opistorchis viverrini | *Opistorchis viverrini | ||
*Schistosoma spp | *Schistosoma spp | ||
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*Chlonorchis sinensis | *Chlonorchis sinensis | ||
*Paragonimus spp. | *Paragonimus spp. | ||
Revisión del 19:31 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"
Protozoa
- Entamoeba histolytica
- Giardia lamblia
- Leishmania
- Balantidium
- Malaria
- Cryptosporidium
- Chagas Disease
- African Sleeping Sickness
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Trichomonas vaginalis
Helminths
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
- Necator americanus / Ancylostoma duodenale (hookworm)
- Dracunculus medinensis
- Strongyloides stercoralis
- Trichuris trichiura
- Anisakis
- Toxocara spp.
- Trichinosis