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** ''[[Diphyllobothrium]]'' |
** ''[[Diphyllobothrium]]'' |
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* '''Trematodes''' (flatworms/flukes) |
* '''Trematodes''' (flatworms/flukes) |
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− | ** Lung |
+ | ** Lung: [[Paragonimus species]] |
− | *** ''[[Paragonimus]]'' |
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** Liver |
** Liver |
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− | *** ''[[Fasciola hepatica]]'' |
+ | *** ''[[Fasciola hepatica]]'' (common liver fluke or sheep liver fluke) |
− | *** ''[[Opisthorchis viverrini]]'' |
+ | *** ''[[Opisthorchis viverrini]]'' (Southeast Asian liver fluke) |
+ | *** ''[[Clonorchis sinensis]]'' (Chinese liver fluke) |
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+ | *** ''[[Metorchis conjunctus]]'' (Canadian liver fluke) |
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+ | *** ''[[Dicrocoelium dendriticum]]'' (lancet liver fluke) |
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** Intestinal |
** Intestinal |
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+ | *** ''[[Echinostoma revolutum]]'' |
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+ | *** ''[[Fasciolopsis buskii]]'' |
+ | *** [[Metagonimus species]] |
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+ | *** ''[[Heterophyes heterophyes]]'' |
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+ | ** Blood: [[Schistosoma species]] |
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*** ''[[Schistosoma haematobium]]'' |
*** ''[[Schistosoma haematobium]]'' |
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*** ''[[Schistosoma mansoni]]'' |
*** ''[[Schistosoma mansoni]]'' |
Revision as of 18:01, 18 December 2019
- Eukaryotic single- or multi-cellular organisms
Single-celled (protozoa)
- 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
Multicellular (helminths)
- Nematodes (roundworms)
- Filarial/filariasis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Subsutaneous/tissue
- Serous
- 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
- Soil-transmitted
- Filarial/filariasis
- 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
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