Parasites
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- Eukaryotic single- or multi-cellular organisms
- Includes protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites
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