Parasite of the Day

A few months ago, you met Capillaria hepatica , a nematode worm that sometimes infects humans, but mostly uses rodents as its host. Today...

Pentastomids are a group of parasites that primarily infect the respiratory tracts of reptiles and amphibians, with a few species that infec...

Parasitic nematodes in the genus Trichinella are commonly found in endothermic (warm-blooded) animals. The most common species, Trichinella...

Acanthostomum americanum is a digenean trematode found in the intestine of Morelet's crocodile ( Crocodylus moreletii ) from Yucatan, M...

There are five species of hemogregarine apicomplexan blood parasites (distant relatives of malaria parasites) that have been described from ...

Today's parasite is a schistosome blood fluke which has been described from the Australian freshwater crocodile ( Crocodylus johnstoni )...