Parasitic diseases

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
  • Schistosomiasis
• Chlonorchis sinensis
• Paragonimus spp.

Nematodes (Roundworms)

• Ascaris lumbricoides
• Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworm)
• Filarial worms
  • Loa Loa
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Lymphatic filariasis (Elephantiasis)
    • Wuchereria bancrofti
    • Brugia malayi
    • Brugia timori
• 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

• Bed bugs
• Lice
• Scabies (Mites)
• Ticks
• Fleas
• Pseudoparasites
• Delusional parasitosis (Ekbom syndrome)

See also travel-related skin conditions

Ectoparasite & Related Images

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  Bed bug

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  Myiasis

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  Scabies

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  Ixodes tick

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  Lice

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  Fleas

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  Pseudoparasites

Marine Dermatitis

• Swimmer's Itch
• Seabather's Eruption

See Also

• Microbiology (Main)
• Travel Medicine