Parasites

Clinical Classification

• 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
        • Naeglaria fowleri
        • Balamuthia mandrillaris
    • Muscle
      • Sarcocystis
    • Kinetoplasts: flagellated protozoa with DNA inside large mitochondria at one end
      • Chagas
      • Human African trypanosomiasis
      • Leishmaniasis
• Multicellular
  • Worms (helminths)
    • Nematodes (roundworms)
      • Filarial/filariasis
        • Lymphatic (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