Parasites

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• echinococcosis
  5 December 2005

  hydatid disease
  Definition: Echinococcosis, which is often referred to as hydatid disease or echinococcal disease, is a parasitic disease that affects both humans and other mammals, such as sheep, dogs, rodents and horses.
  Images
  hepatic cystic echinococcosis / Echinococcus granulosus
  https://twitter.com/RhondaYantiss/status/851519941299851265
  There are three different forms of echinococcosis found in humans, each of which is caused by the larval stages of different species of the (...)

• Amoeba sp.
  9 March 2007

  WKP
  Pathology
  amoebiasis
  See also
  infectious agents

• Plasmodium falciparum
  15 July 2007

  P. falciparum causes more severe disease than the other Plasmodium species do.
  Several features of P. falciparum account for its greater pathogenicity:
  P. falciparum is able to infect red blood cells of any age, leading to high parasite burdens and profound anemia. The other species infect only new or old red blood cells, which are a smaller fraction of the red blood cell pool.
  P. falciparum causes infected red blood cells to clump together (rosetting) and to stick to endothelial cells (...)

• Leishmania donovani
  13 June 2006

  See also
  leishmanioses visceral leishmaniosis

• nematodes
  9 December 2004

  Exemples
  filariasis
  Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworms/Thread worms)
  Trichuris trichiura (Whipworm)
  Synopsis
  eosinophilic ileocolitis
  Videos
  Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworms/Thread worms) in a colon
  Trichuris trichiura in the caecum
  See also
  helminths nematodes
  Enterobius sp. Enterobius vermicularis Enterobius gregorii

• Naegleria fowleri
  18 September 2007

  Pathology
  amebic meningoencephalitis
  Images
  Naegleria fowleri amoeba in brain. Small trophozoites, pale nucleus https://twitter.com/TheUSCAP/status/763176116131475456
  References
  Visvesvara GS, Moura H, Schuster FL. Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amoebae: Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, Naegleria fowleri, and Sappinia diploidea. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2007 Jun;50(1):1-26. PMID: #17428307#
  Grate I Jr. Primary amebic meningoencephalitis: a silent killer. (...)

• filariases
  9 December 2004

  filariosis, filarial disease, filariasis
  Images
  filariasis
  https://twitter.com/il_patologo/status/666530357446094848
  dirfilariasis
  https://twitter.com/Nikon_Zaitsev/status/661236545005973504
  Videos
  ocular filariasis
  https://www.instagram.com/p/BGpMZ-Vm-e1/
  microfilaria
  https://twitter.com/faheemaktr/status/745886231339343872
  Digital cases
  UI: - Filariasis
  UI:990 - Onchocerca volvulus
  Definition: Infections with nematodes of the superfamily Filarioidea. Filariasis is (...)

• Onchocerca volvulus
  9 December 2004

  WKP
  Pathology
  onchocerciasis
  See also
  filariasis

• Onchocerca volvulus
  9 December 2004

  Digital slides
  UI:990 - Onchocerca volvulus
  Definition: Onchocerca volvulus is a filarial nematode transmitted by black flies. It affects more than 17 million people in Africa, South America, and Yemen.
  An aggressive campaign of ivermectin treatment has dramatically reduced the incidence of Onchocerca infection in West Africa; however, O. volvulus remains the second most common preventable cause of blindness in sub-Saharan Africa.
  Adult O. volvulus parasites mate in the dermis, where (...)

• Mansonella streptocerca
  9 December 2004

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