Parasitology, Microbiology and Infection Control

Clinical Manifestations Of Parasitic Diseases

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Parasites are single cell small sized micro-organisms that live on other living things including animals and humans to get food and survive. Sometimes humans can suffer severe life threatening infections when they have a parasitic attack. Parasitic diseases caused mainly by Protozoa and Helminths.

Parasites are of two types ectoparasites and endoparasites. If any parasite lives on the surface of a host such as human it is called as ectoparasite and parasite lives inside the living thing it is called as endoparasite. Mainly parasitic diseases are occurred by endoparasites.

The common parasitic diseases are Dysentery, Pneomonia, Filariasis, Scabies, and Pediculosis etc.