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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. Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia

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    Type II: non-virulent in mice, virulent in humans (mostly Europe and North America), seen in people with AIDS. Type III: non-virulent in mice, virulent mainly in animals but seen to a lesser degree in humans as well. Current serotyping techniques can only separate type I or III from type II parasites. [91]

  4. Parelaphostrongylus tenuis - Wikipedia

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    [1] [10] [11] However, brainworm larvae are difficult to distinguish from other parasitic worm species that can also be found in fecal pellets, [14] so detection of adult worms through necropsy is recommended. Diagnosis in moose is conducted with necropsy to detect worms in the brain or spinal cord.

  5. ‘Still alive and wriggling:’ Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic ...

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    When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm ...

  6. Cysticercosis - Wikipedia

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    Cysticercosis is usually acquired by eating food or drinking water contaminated by tapeworms' eggs from human feces. [1] Among foods egg-contaminated vegetables [1] are a major source. [7] The tapeworm eggs are present in the feces of a person infected with the adult worms, a condition known as taeniasis.

  7. Woman's series of odd symptoms were from 3-inch worm ... - AOL

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    A 64-year-old Australian woman is the first documented human to be infected with a type of parasite normally found in carpet pythons. Doctors extracted a 3.1-inch living roundworm from her brain ...

  8. Neurocysticercosis - Wikipedia

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    Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a parasitic infection of the nervous system caused by the larvae of the tapeworm Taenia solium, also known as the "pork tapeworm". The disease is primarily transmitted through direct contact with human feces, often through the consumption of food or water containing Taenia solium eggs.

  9. Neurosurgeon investigating patient's mystery symptoms plucks ...

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    A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy ...

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