Amebiasis Facts

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Previous 270Lice - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseaseshttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/lice/default.htm Lice - CDC Division of Parasitic DiseasesTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic Includes factsheets on head, body, and pubic lice and the conditions they cause, news releases, and reports.
Other resource N0 WormLearnhttp://home.austarnet.com.au/wormman/wormmain.htm WormLearnTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic A parasitology site that helps people with little or no knowledge of parasites get essential introductory information.
Other resource N1 CDC DPDx - Parasites and Healthhttp://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Para_Health.htm CDC DPDx - Parasites and HealthTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic Factsheets on on intestinal and blood-borne parasites.
Other resource N2 The Merck Manual: Parasitic Infectionhttp://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch196/ch196a.html The Merck Manual: Parasitic InfectionTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic Provides detailed information on each of these diseases, including their symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Other resource N3 Mamas Healthhttp://www.mamashealth.com/malaria.asp Mamas HealthTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria Malaria, its symptoms, treatment and prevention.
Other resource N4 Health Care Information: Relapsing Malariahttp://healthlink.mcw.edu/content/article/907368749.html Health Care Information: Relapsing MalariaTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria It is possible to develop a relapsing type of malaria months to even years after traveling to a malaria infected country, even if you were taking the appropriate malaria medications to prevent the illness.
Other resource N5 Rotary Against Malariahttp://www.rotary9600.org/ Rotary Against MalariaTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria Information about malaria and the Rotary Club's anti-malaria project.
Other resource N6 Malaria Linkshttp://www.geocities.com/aaadeel/malaria.html Malaria LinksTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria A reference page containing links on malaria: diagnosis, treatment and control as well as links for advice regarding protection of travellers
Other resource N7 Malaria and Healthhttp://www.malariaandhealth.com Malaria and HealthTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria A resource for travel medicine health professionals and the public. Provides an overview of the disease, endemic areas, prevention measures including drug prophylaxis as well as links to other malaria and tropical medicine sites.
Other resource N8 Leiden Malaria Research Grouphttp://www.lumc.nl/1040/research/malaria/malaria.html Leiden Malaria Research GroupTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria Malaria research in the Leiden University Medical Center (Netherlands). Detailed description of the malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei, one of the four rodent parasites that infect African murine rodents.
Other resource N9 Environmental Health Project - Malaria Resourceshttp://www.ehproject.org/Library/MalariaNet.htm Environmental Health Project - Malaria ResourcesTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria Sponsored by USAID's Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition. Resources available include regular bulletins and reports outlining anti-malaria strategies and policy recommendations, assessments of past programs, studies and conference proceedings.
Other resource N10 Antimalarial Drug Resistance and its Assessmenthttp://malaria.farch.net Antimalarial Drug Resistance and its AssessmentTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria A website dedicated to drug resistance in malaria and to drug sensitivity assays. Its aim is to provide researchers with all information and software required for drug sensitivity testing.
Other resource N11 DDT & Malaria: Answers to Common Questionshttp://www.ipen.org/DDTenglish.pdf DDT & Malaria: Answers to Common QuestionsTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria The Stockholm Convention, signed by 91 countries and the European Community in 2001, will enter into force and become legally binding when it is ratified by 50 countries, raising the possibility of the 'loss' of DDT as a tool for malaria control. This IPEN document answers some common questions that arise in public discussions of the DDT issue.
Other resource N12 MEDLINEplus: Malariahttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/malaria.html MEDLINEplus: MalariaTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria US National Institutes of Health directory of their extensive collection of malaria-related documents
Other resource N13 AnoBase: The Anopheles Databasehttp://www.anobase.org/ AnoBase: The Anopheles DatabaseTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Malaria Database containing genomic/biological information on anopheline mosquitoes, with an emphasis on Anopheles gambiae, the world's most important malaria vector. AnoBase is the continuation of AnoDB, a database established and maintained since 1996 at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
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Other resource N41 CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Cryptosporidiosishttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/cryptosporidiosis/factsht_cryptosporidiosis.htm CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - CryptosporidiosisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Cryptosporidiosis Fact sheet with cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Other resource N42 CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Cyclospora Infection http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/cyclospora/default.htm CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Cyclospora Infection Top/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Cyclosporiasis Fact sheets and studies with cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
Other resource N43 Microsporidiosishttp://www.thebody.com/treat/micros.html MicrosporidiosisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Microsporidiosis Information resources from The Body on this opportunitistic infection.
Other resource N44 Leishmaniasis, Caninehttp://www.stw.nl/projecten/U/udg3703.html Leishmaniasis, CanineTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Leishmaniasis Immunization using interferon-gamma as an adjuvant.
Other resource N45 Persian Gulf, The Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Health of U.S. Troopshttp://www.gulflink.osd.mil/medical/med_impact.htm Persian Gulf, The Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Health of U.S. TroopsTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Leishmaniasis Includes Leishmaniasis as one of the diseases studied in connection with Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. From Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses, reprinted from Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Other resource N46 Leishmaniasis, Technicalhttp://www.icp.ucl.ac.be/~opperd/parasites/leish1.htm Leishmaniasis, TechnicalTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Leishmaniasis Summary information plus clickable slides, references and world maps. From Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology.
Other resource N47 Leishmaniasis, Government (CDC)http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/leishmania/default.htm Leishmaniasis, Government (CDC)Top/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Leishmaniasis Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Emerging Infectious Diseases. From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Other resource N48 Leishmaniasis, Visceralhttp://homepages.uel.ac.uk/D.P.Humber/akhter/vlhp.htm Leishmaniasis, VisceralTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Leishmaniasis From University of East London, B.Sc Microbiology course project.
Other resource N49 Leishmaniasis, Government (TDR)http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/leish/default.htm Leishmaniasis, Government (TDR)Top/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Leishmaniasis Update, project reports, highlights, progress, publications, workplans and research grants, resources. From WHO/TDR (World Health Organization/Tropical Disease Research and Training).
Other resource N50 Leishmaniasis (CDC - DPDx)http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Leishmaniasis.htm Leishmaniasis (CDC - DPDx)Top/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Leishmaniasis US government site includes causal agent, life cycle, geographic distribution, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis and features. From the Division of Parasitic Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Other resource N51 Enterobius vermicularis - Pinwormshttp://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/enterobius.html Enterobius vermicularis - PinwormsTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Pinworms Includes pinworm life cycle, signs and symptoms, photographs and drawings of the parasite, and detection procedures.
Other resource N52 Pinworms and Your Childhttp://familydoctor.org/139.xml Pinworms and Your ChildTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Pinworms American Academy of Family Physicians patient information handout with information on treatment, symptoms, and prevention.
Other resource N53 eMedicine - Pinworm : Article by Sun Huh, MD, PhDhttp://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1837.htm eMedicine - Pinworm : Article by Sun Huh, MD, PhDTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Pinworms Article by Sun Huh, MD, PhD.
Other resource N54 Babesia Infectionhttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/babesia/ Babesia InfectionTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Babesiosis Information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Other resource N55 Babesiosishttp://www.igenex.com/tickset1.htm BabesiosisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Babesiosis Description of the disease and diagnostic tests.
Other resource N56 Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' Disease)http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/chagas.html Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' Disease)Top/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Chagas_Disease Images of the causative parasite and brief information about the disease.
Other resource N57 Chagas Disease Research Programhttp://info.dom.uab.edu/geomed/debasish/chagas.html Chagas Disease Research ProgramTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Chagas_Disease Debasish Chattopadhyay's Structural Biology Laboratory is studying the DHFR and PTR enzymes of Trypanosoma cruzi for structure-based design of specific inhibitors of these enzymes. For this purpose, they have determined the crystal structure of substrate and inhibitor complexes of T. cruzi PTR at high resolution.
Other resource N58 Chagas Disease Factshttp://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Chagas.html Chagas Disease FactsTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Chagas_Disease Factsheet with cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Other resource N59 Trypanosomiasishttp://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/WWW/224/Trypano.html TrypanosomiasisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/African_Trypanosomiasis Information about two forms of Trypanosoma brucei, which afflicts over 66 million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Other resource N60 African Trypanosomiasishttp://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Trypano.html African TrypanosomiasisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/African_Trypanosomiasis Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention.
Other resource N61 Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africahttp://www.who.int/ocp/ Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West AfricaTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Onchocerciasis Detailed information about the disease and eradication programs from the World Health Organization.
Other resource N62 Sight Savers International - River Blindnesshttp://www.sightsavers.org.uk/html/savingsight/treatments/river.htm Sight Savers International - River BlindnessTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Onchocerciasis Information about the disease and its treatment.
Other resource N63 CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - River Blindnesshttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/riverblindness/ CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - River BlindnessTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Onchocerciasis Factsheet and press releases concerning the disease.
Other resource N64 OnchoNethttp://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/SWILLIAM/OnchoNet/OnchoNet.html OnchoNetTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Onchocerciasis Offers a range of resources on onchocerciasis, the fourth leading cause of blindness worldwide.
Other resource N65 Elimination Of River Blindness 'Possible Within Ten Years'http://allafrica.com/stories/200112150001.html Elimination Of River Blindness 'Possible Within Ten Years'Top/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Onchocerciasis Article from allAfrica.com.
Other resource N66 Anisakis simplex and related worms: Bad Bug Bookhttp://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap25.html Anisakis simplex and related worms: Bad Bug BookTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
Other resource N67 Baylisascaris Infection Fact Sheet - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseaseshttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/baylisacaris/default.htm Baylisascaris Infection Fact Sheet - CDC Division of Parasitic DiseasesTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Includes factsheets on the raccoon roundworm and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
Other resource N68 Angiostrongyliasis - CDC DPDxhttp://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/angiostrongyliasis.htm Angiostrongyliasis - CDC DPDxTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
Other resource N69 Gnathostomiasis - CDC DPDxhttp://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/gnathostomiasis.htm Gnathostomiasis - CDC DPDxTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment. Human gnathostomiasis is due to migrating immature worms.
Other resource N70 Ascaris Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseaseshttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/ascaris/ Ascaris Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic DiseasesTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Includes factsheets on organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
Other resource N71 Ascariasishttp://www.worldwaterday.org/2001/disease/ascariasis.html AscariasisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Disease fact sheet from the World Health Organization, prepared for World Water Day 2001.
Other resource N72 Hookworm : MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopediahttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000629.htm Hookworm : MedlinePlus Medical EncyclopediaTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
Other resource N73 Creeping Eruption: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopediahttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001454.htm Creeping Eruption: MedlinePlus Medical EncyclopediaTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
Other resource N74 eMedicine - Cutaneous Larva Migranshttp://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic91.htm eMedicine - Cutaneous Larva MigransTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.
Other resource N75 eMedicine - Toxocariasishttp://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2293.htm eMedicine - ToxocariasisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Article by Sun Huh, MD, PhD.
Other resource N76 Trichinella: Food Safety Research Information Officehttp://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio/topics/tptrichinella.htm Trichinella: Food Safety Research Information OfficeTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the parasite and its effects.
Other resource N77 Ascariasis: Kidshealthhttp://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/parasitic/ascariasis.html Ascariasis: KidshealthTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Factsheet with signs and symptoms, treatment, and tips for prevention.
Other resource N78 Strongyloidiasishttp://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0803/education/280.html StrongyloidiasisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Includes history, cause, images, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
Other resource N79 Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic Zoonosishttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no4/01-0273.htm Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic ZoonosisTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Nematodes Scientific and medical article on the raccoon roundworm and its effects on people.
Other resource N80 Alveolar Hydatid Disease - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseaseshttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/alveolarhydatid/default.htm Alveolar Hydatid Disease - CDC Division of Parasitic DiseasesTop/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Tapeworms Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

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