Parasites: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:49, 28 August 2019

Single-celled (protozoa)
- Intestinal
  - Amoeba
    - Entamoeba histolytica
  - Flagellates
    - Giardia
  - "Coccidia" (not a microbiologically-sound category)
    - Cryptosporidium
    - Cyclospora
    - Isospora
  - Ciliated
    - Balantidium coli
- Blood
  - Plasmodium
  - Babesia
- Tissue
  - Brain
    - Toxoplasma gondii
    - Free-living amoebae
      - Naegleria fowleri
      - Balamuthia mandrillaris
  - Muscle
    - Sarcocystis
  - Kinetoplasts: flagellated protozoa with DNA inside large mitochondria at one end
Multicellular
- Worms (helminths)
  - 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
    - Liver
      - Fasciola hepatica
      - Opisthorchis viverrini & Clonorchis sinensis
    - Intestinal
      - Fasciolopsis
    - Schistosoma
      - 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 penetrants

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 *** Nematodes (roundworms)
 **** Filarial/filariasis
-***** Lymphatic (elephantiasis)
+***** [[Lymphatic filariasis]] (elephantiasis)
 ****** ''[[Wuchereria bancrofti]]''
 ****** ''[[Brugia malayi]]''