Parasitic diseases

Background

• Although any organism that "lives in or on another and takes its nourishment from that other organism" is technically a parasite, in common medical parlance "parasitic diseases" refer to infections due to protozoa, helminths, arthropods, or other "macroparasites"

List

• Chagas Disease
• Lice
• Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
• Myiasis
• Cysticercosis
• Loa Loa
• African Sleeping Sickness
• Swimmer's Itch
• Seabather's Eruption
• Pinworm
• Dracunculosis
• Trichinosis
• Cimex lenticularis

Larva Currens

• Thumbprint sign: periumbilical purpura
• Strongyloides stercoralis

See Also

• Microbiology (Main)
• Travel Medicine