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Revision as of 14:46, 6 September 2014
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