Parasitic worm (disambiguation)
Parasitic worm, known for flukes and intestinal worms, may refer to:
- Acanthocephala, or the spiny-headed worms all of which are parasitic.
- Helminth collectively describes the unrelated "worm-like" groups platyhelminthes and nematoda
- Hirudinea, extoparasitic annelids commonly known as leeches
- Nematoda, or roundworms the most well known of which are parasitic
- Enterobius, commonly known as pinworms, cause the disease enterobiasis.
- Hookworms, intestinal parasites of mammals.
- Pentastomida, sometimes referred to as tongue worms which are obligate parasites
- Platyhelminthes, or flatworms the phyla which contains the parasitic tapeworms and flukes.
- Liver fluke
- Blood fluke
- Lung fluke
- Intestinal fluke
Parasitic worm infection
- Tapeworm infection
- Deworming
- Effects of parasitic worms on the immune system
- Coenurosis, intermediate infection of host
- Enterobiasis, pinworm infection
- Echinococcosis, host disease by tapeworm larve
- Helminthiasis, disease caused by any parasitic worm
See also
- Nematomorpha, the horsehair worms are parasitoids not truly parasites.
- Parasitology, relation between host and parasite
- Human parasites
- Parasitic nutrition, parasite nutrition by feeding off the host
- Ringworm, a fungal infection which causes a ring shaped discoloration in the skin
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