Parasites

• Eukaryotic single- or multi-cellular organisms

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
    • Chagas
    • Human African trypanosomiasis
    • Leishmaniasis

Multicellular (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