Parasitic

Includes factsheets on the flagellate protozoan parasite and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

Factsheets and articles on amebic dysentery caused by the organism Entamoeba histolytica.

Features risk factors, cause, complications, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Encyclopedia article on this condition caused by infection with Blastocystis, a single-celled parasite that infects the gastrointestinal tract of humans and animals.

Fact sheets and studies with cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

Article by Brooks D Cash.

Provides news, project reports, highlights, progress, publications, workplans, research grants and resources. From the World Health Organization, Tropical Disease Research and Training.

Detailed information from the World Health Organization.

Presents an in-depth look at malaria.

Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.

Provides information on this disease and the program for its elimination being undertaken.

Provides information on the research being undertaken into this disease and its vectors.

Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of pinworms.

Includes cause, life cycle, clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment.

Factsheet with cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

Directory of factsheets, news, and articles.

Encyclopedia article on this infection which is caused by water-borne trematode parasites.

American Osteopathic College of Dermatology information page on cercarial dermatitis. Covers description, cause, geographic occurrence, treatment, names for this condition in different parts of the world, and other causes of itching among swimmers.

Article by Ryan Tenzer, MD.

Article by Derek Linklater, MD.

Article by Imad S Dandan, MD.

Article by Raquel Mora, MD.

Fact sheets and articles on this disease caused by tapeworms.

Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

Includes disease information, parasite life cycle, research information, and links.

Article by Palaniandy Kogulan, MD.

Information on the global fight against malaria and the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) initiative. Includes fact sheets and details of current programs.

Campaign to provide mosquito nets to protect children from malaria. Includes information on the disease and on how members of the public can donate a net or become an activist.

Features disease information and status, control activities and links.

Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.