Parasitic Infections

Parasitic Infections

1. Onchocerciasis: Onchocerca volvulus Africa, S.America

   • Lymph nodes, microfilaria blindness

2. Loa Loa Vector:Chrysops tabanid flies Skin swellings

3. Mycoses

   • Superficial
     • Piedra: Trichosporon beigelii, Piedra hortae
     • Tinea nigra
     • Pityriasis versicolour: Malassezia furfur
     • Tinia circinata: Trichophyton rubrum, Microsporum, Epidermophyton floccusum
     • Onchomycoses: Tinea unguium
   • Subcutaneous
     • Eumycotic mycetoma: Madurella
     • Chromoblastomycoses: cauliflower
     • Phaeohyphomycosis: sinuses
   • Deep-seated
     • Cryptococcus neoformans, Blastomyces
     • Histoplasma: soil, bird/bat feaces
     • Coccoidioidomycoses
   • Opportunistic
     • Candida albicans
     • Aspergillus: flavus, niger, fumigatus
     • Zygomycoses, Mucormycoses

4. Protozoa

   • Diarrhoea
     • Balantidium coli
     • Blastocystis
     • Giardia lamblia
     • Cryptosporidium parvum
   • Entamoeba histolytica
   • Naegleria fowleri
   • Pneumocystis carinii
   • Trichomonas vaginalis
   • Acanthomoeba
   • Toxoplasma gondii

5. Trematodes

6. Nematodes

7. Cestodes