Diferencia entre revisiones de «Parasitic diseases»

Revisión del 19:18 6 sep 2014

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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 *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==
+==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
+**[[Loa Loa]]
+**[[Onchocerciasis]]
+*Necator americanus / Ancylostoma duodenale (hookworm)
+*[[Dracunculus medinensis]]
+*Strongyloides stercoralis
+*Trichuris trichiura
+*Anisakis
+*Toxocara spp.
+*[[Trichinosis]]
+==Ectoparasites==
+*[[Bedbugs]]
 *[[Lice]]
-*[[Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)]]
 *[[Myiasis]]
-*[[Cysticercosis]]
-*[[Loa Loa]]
+==?==
-*[[African Sleeping Sickness]]
 *[[Swimmer's Itch]]
 *[[Seabather's Eruption]]
-*[[Pinworm]]
-*[[Dracunculosis]]
-*[[Trichinosis]]
-*[[Bedbugs]]
 ==See Also==