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Schistoma mansoni
Helminth
Freshwater parasite
Goes theough skin and sits in blood vessels to damage liver and intestines
Acaris lumbricoides
Common: Acaris (hookworm)
Helminth
Lives in intestines via ingestion or contact with soil
Blastomyces dermatidis
Fungus
flu like respiratory infection
Plasmodium falciparum
Protozoa
Plasmodium
Liver then transitions to RBCS from mosquitos
Trypanosoma brucei
Protozoa
Causes African sleeping disease from testse fly bites
Sarcopetes scabei
Arthropod
scabies
burrows in the skin and lays eggs there
Wucheria bancoti
Helminth
Threadlike worm infecting the lymph system from mosquitos
Taenia solium
Helminth
pork tapeworm
raw and undercooked meat
Dermacenter sp.
Arthropod
tick
transmits various diseases
Cimex lectularios
Arthropod
bed bug
Bites cause itching and irritation feeds on blood
Candida albicans
Fungi
yeast
can cause infections if overgrown
Enterobius venicularis
Helminth
pinworm
eggs laid in around anus very itchy
Trichomonas vaginalis
Protozoa
trichamonas
sti causing discharge
Karenia brevis
Algae
red tide
caused red tide
Leishmania sp.
Protozoa
sandfly transmission skin sores