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  2. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

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    Main article: Human parasite Endoparasites Protozoan organisms Common name of organism or disease Latin name (sorted) Body parts affected Diagnostic specimen Prevalence Source/Transmission (Reservoir/Vector) Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis (eye infection) Acanthamoeba spp. eye, brain, skin culture worldwide contact lenses cleaned with contaminated tap water ...

  3. Protist - Wikipedia

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    A protist (/ ˈ p r oʊ t ɪ s t / PROH-tist) or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus.Protists do not form a natural group, or clade, but are a polyphyletic grouping of several independent clades that evolved from the last eukaryotic common ancestor.

  4. List of sequenced protist genomes - Wikipedia

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    Organism Type Relevance Genome size Number of genes predicted Organization Year of completion Giardia enterica (G. duodenalis assemblage B) Parasitic protozoan Human pathogen 11.7 Mb 4,470 [53] multicenter collaboration 2009 [53] Giardia duodenalis ATCC 50803 (Giardia duodenalis assemblage A) Parasitic protozoan Human pathogen 11.7 Mb

  5. Protozoan infection - Wikipedia

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    In these moist environments, plankton and terrestrial forms can also be found. Protists are chemoorganotrophic [organisms which oxidize the chemical bonds in organic compounds as their energy source] [3] and are responsible for recycling nitrogen and phosphorus. Parasites also are responsible for causing disease in humans and domesticated animals.

  6. Protistology - Wikipedia

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    All eukaryotes apart from animals, plants and fungi are considered protists. [1] Its field of study therefore overlaps with the more traditional disciplines of phycology , mycology , and protozoology , just as protists embrace mostly unicellular organisms described as algae , some organisms regarded previously as primitive fungi , and protozoa ...

  7. Taxonomy of Protista - Wikipedia

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    A protist (/ ˈ p r oʊ t ɪ s t /) is any eukaryotic organism (one with cells containing a nucleus) that is not an animal, plant, or fungus.The protists do not form a natural group, or clade, since they exclude certain eukaryotes with whom they share a common ancestor; [a] but, like algae or invertebrates, the grouping is used for convenience.

  8. List of parasitic organisms - Wikipedia

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    These can be categorized into three groups; cestodes, nematodes and trematodes.Examples include: Acanthocephala; Ascariasis (roundworms); Cestoda (tapeworms) including: Taenia saginata (human beef tapeworm), Taenia solium (human pork tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm) and Echinococcosis (hydatid tapeworm)

  9. Excavata - Wikipedia

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    It contains a variety of free-living and symbiotic protists, and includes some important parasites of humans such as Giardia and Trichomonas. [5] Excavates were formerly considered to be included in the now obsolete Protista kingdom. [ 6 ]