Parasites: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:08, 18 December 2019

Nematodes (roundworms)
- Filarial/filariasis
  - Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
    - Wuchereria bancrofti
    - Brugia malayi
    - Brugia timori
  - Subsutaneous/tissue
    - Onchocerca volvulus
    - Loa loa
  - Serous
    - Mansonella perstans
    - Mansonella ozzardi
- Non-filarial
  - Soil-transmitted
    - Ascaris lumbricoides (great roundworm)
    - Trichuris trichiura (whipworm)
    - Hookworm
      - Ancylostoma duodenale (Old World hookworm)
      - Necator americanus (New World hookworm)
    - Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)
  - Non-soil-transmitted
    - Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
    - Trichinella spiralis
    - Balisascaris procyonis
    - Dracunculus medinensis (Guinea worm)
    - Angiostrongylus cantonensis
    - Anisakis (herring worm)
    - Gnathostoma
Cestodes (tapeworms)
- Taenia saginata
- Taenia solium
  - Adult worm
  - Neurocysticercosis
- Echinococcus
- Diphyllobothrium
Trematodes (flatworms/flukes)
- Lung: Paragonimus species
- Liver
  - Fasciola hepatica (common liver fluke or sheep liver fluke)
  - Opisthorchis viverrini (Southeast Asian liver fluke)
  - Clonorchis sinensis (Chinese liver fluke)
  - Metorchis conjunctus (Canadian liver fluke)
  - Dicrocoelium dendriticum (lancet liver fluke)
- Intestinal
- Blood: Schistosoma species
  - Schistosoma haematobium
  - Schistosoma mansoni

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 *** ''[[Schistosoma haematobium]]''
 *** ''[[Schistosoma mansoni]]''
-== Ectoparasites ==
-* Fleas
-* Lice
-** Body lice
-** Head lice
-** Pubic lice
-* [[Scabies]]
-* Myiasis
-** ''[[Dermatobia hominis]]'' (human botfly)
-** ''[[Cordylobia anthropophaga]]'' (tumbu fly)
-** ''[[Cochliomyia hominivorax]]'' (New World screwworm fly)
-** ''[[Chrysomya bezziana]]'' (Old World screwworm fly)
-* Tungiasis
-** ''[[Tunga penetrans]]''
 [[Category:Organisms]]