Parasitology, Microbiology and Infection Control

Parasitic Zoonoses

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A zoonotic disease is a disease spread between animals and people. Zoonotic diseases can be caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. The majority of the classic parasitic diseases due to helminthes, trematodes, cestodes, pentastomids and protozoa are zoonotic. These zoonotic diseases include many of the classic infectious diseases such as rabies and ricketsia (e.g. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), as well as most of the “new” emerging infectious diseases such as HIV, Lyme, SARS, Ehrlichiosis and Nipah virus.