Directory of Spirurida Resources

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Order of mostly parasitic nematodes.

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• Brugia malayi

  http://www.nematodes.org/nembase4/species_info.php?species=BMC
  Photographs and information on the caustive agent of human lymphatic filariasis, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease it causes.

• Dracunculus medinensis: The Guinea Worm

  http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/nemaplex/taxadata/Dmedinensis.HTM
  Photographs and information on this parasite of humans, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease it causes.

• Haemonchus contortus

  http://www.nematodes.org/nembase4/species_info.php?species=HCC
  Photographs and information on this filarial parasite of ruminants, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the condition.

• Life-cycle of Onchocerca volvulus

  http://www.who.int/apoc/onchocerciasis/lifecycle/en/
  Photographs and information on the parasites that cause onchocerciasis are which are transmitted from human to human through the bites of blackfly vectors.

• Loa loa

  http://www.nematodes.org/nembase4/species_info.php?species=LLC
  Photographs and information on this cutaneous filarial parasite of humans.

• Loa loa: Filariasis

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loa_loa
  Information from Wikipedia on this nematode worm, its life cycle and the diseases it causes.

• Onchocerca volvulus

  http://www.nematodes.org/nembase4/species_info.php?species=OVC
  Photographs and information on this parasite, the causative agent of River Blindness, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease.

• Wuchereria bancrofti

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/krout_bria/
  Research project by Brianna Krout on this parasitic nematode including its classification, host interactions, where it is found and elephantiasis, the disease it can cause.

• Wuchereria bancrofti

  http://www.nematodes.org/nembase4/species_info.php?species=WBC
  Photographs and information on this parasite, the causative agent of Bancroftian Filariasis, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease.

 

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