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- Amoebae: pseudopodia
- Obligate parasites
- Non-pathogenic
- Pathogenic
- Facultative free-living parasites
- Obligate parasites
- Flagellates: regular flagella or kinetoplastic flagella
- Non-kinetoplastic flagellates
- Pathogenic
- Intestinal: Giardia lamblia and Dientamoeba fragilis
- Genitourinary: Trichomonas vaginalis
- Non-pathogenic
- Intestinal: Chilomastix mesnili, Pentatrichomonas hominis
- Oral: Trichomonas tenax
- Pathogenic
- Kinetoplastid flagellates: flagellated protozoa with DNA inside large mitochondria at one end
- Trypanosoma species
- Trypanosoma cruzi: causes American trypanosomiasis
- Trypanosoma brucei: causes human African trypanosomiasis
- Trypanosoma brucei subsp. gambiense: causes West African trypanosomiasis
- Trypanosoma brucei subsp. rhodesiense: causes East African trypanosomiasis
- Other subspecies have case reports of causing human disease
- Leishmania species
- Old World, visceralizing: L. infantum, L. donovani (in India)
- Old World, tegumentary: L. infantum, L. donovani (Sri Lanka), L. major, L. tropica
- New World, visceralizing: L. chagasi (genetically identical to L. infantum)
- New World, tegumentary:
- Viannia group (should be treated systemically): L. braziliensis, L. panamensis, L. guyanensis
- Leishmania group (may need only local treatment): L. mexicana
- Trypanosoma species
- Non-kinetoplastic flagellates
- Apicomplexa: gliding, sexual reproduction
- Hemosporidia
- Coccidia (not a microbiologically-sound category)
- Ciliates: cilia
