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Trypanosoma
Extracellular parasites capable of parasatizing all vertabrates. Spread by kissing bug. |
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Leishmania
Spread by sand fly to mammals |
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Trichomonas
Lives in urogenital tract. STD |
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Gregarines
Infect everything. Spread by orofecal route |
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Haemogregarina
Reptile/Amphibian blood parasites. Invertabrates are intermediate host |
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Toxoplasma
Infect many mammalian and avian hosts. Cats are definitive host, encyst in other mammal's tissues as intermediate hosts |
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Cryptosporidium
Human host. Transmitted from feces to water |
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Plasmodium
Insect definitive host. Humans intermediate host |
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Haemoproteus
Avian malarial parasite |
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Nyctotherus
Lives in frog and tortoise colon |
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Cyclidum
Not parasitic, found in Great Salt Lake |
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Echinostoma
Two snail intermediate hosts. Picked up by humans when the second intermediate host is eaten |
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Fasciola
Flukes. Intermediate host snails. Definitive hosts are humans |
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Schistosoma
Eggs excreted in urine and feces. First stage infects snails. Cercareiae leave snails and burrow into humans. |
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Hymenolepis
Insect is intermediate host. Mammal is definitive host |
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Taenia
Cow is intermediate host. Human is definitive host. Orofecal route |
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Monoecocestus
Rat tapeworm |
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Diphyllobothrium
Fish/Human tapeworms |
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Castorstrongylus
Beaver helminth |
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Trichuris
Orofecal route. Infect humans. Direct life cycle |
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Nematospiroides
Direct life cycle - Humans |
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Ascaris
Weird, Direct life cycle in Humans. Lives in Small intestine |
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Moniliformis
Arthropods - Intermediate host
Rodents - Definitive host |
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Polymorphus
Intermediate host - Shrimp
Definitive host - Marine mammals |
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Piagetiella
Live in the mouths of pelicans, drink blood |
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Ceratophyllus
Bird parasite |
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Xenopsylla
Mammal Parasite |
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Hippoboscidae
Lives on bird feet |
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Nycteribidae
Bat parasite |
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Philornis
Larvae are nest parasites |
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Pompilidae
Lays eggs in tarantulas |
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Ichneumonidae
Hosts are insect larvae |
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Cimicidae
Swallow bug/ Bed bug |
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Pterolichoidae
Feather mite |
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Pseudoscorpion
Probably eats mites. Phoresy |
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Cyamidae
Whale louse. Exhibit parental care |
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Pinnotheres
Parasitizes oysters, mussels, clams |
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