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house fly- burrow into skin, facultative
human bot fly- burrow into skin, obligatory
fleas- can burrow into skin to lay eggs
body/head lice
crabs- can be vectors
bedbugs- don't transmit disease
ticks- vectors for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, can have anticoagulant which is a neurotoxin
mites- vectors
mites-ectoparasites
Protozoa that causes steatorrhea
Protozoa that causes bloody, mucousy diarrhea, flask shaped lesions, potentially liver abscesses
Protozoa, acid fast stain reveals
Can cause brain abscesses in immunocompromised
pinworm- scotch tape prep
roundworm that can cause eosinophilic pneumonitis
Whipwor that can cause vitamin A deficiency
Hookworm- can cause iron deficiency anemia
Roundworm that can get larva currens and autoinfection
Raccoon roundworm that can migrate to eye or cause visceral larva migrans
Tapeworm that can't cause cysticercosis
Tapeworm that can cause cysticercosis
Tapeworm that causes hydatid cysts
Tapeworm that is most common in us, doesn't cause much pathology
Liver or lung, get from raw fish, more common in SE Asia
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