Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Internal parasites (including protozoa) and parasitic diseases
Stand alone veterinary medicine articles
[edit]Ascarids (roundworms)
[edit]- Ascaridia galli - Causes ascariasis in poultry. stub.
- Large roundworm of pigs - Ascaris suum. Stub, cleanup.
- Toxocara canis - roundworm of dogs
- Toxocara cati - roundworm of cats
Strongyles
[edit]- Cylicocyclus nassatus - Disease in horses. Substub.
- Gapeworm - Disease in poultry. Short stub.
- Metastrongylosis - Disease in pigs. Substub, possible merge with Metastrongylus.
- Metastrongylus - Disease (verminous bronchitis) in pigs. Stub.
- Moose sickness - caused by P. tenuis
- Muellerius capillaris - cattle - hair lungworm
- Parelaphostrongylus tenuis
- Strongyle - Disease in horses. Substub.
Hookworms
[edit]Whipworms
[edit]Pinworms
[edit]Other nematodes
[edit]- Dictyocaulus - Lungworm. Disease in horses, cattle, deer, missing disease in sheep.
- Dioctophyma renale - Giant kidney worm. Disease in dogs and mink. Orphan, stub.
- Elaeophora schneideri - Disease in sheep, goats, elk, moose. Orphan, stub.
- Filariasis (domestic animals) - Disease in dogs, horses, cattle, missing info in poultry. Stub.
- Habronema - Stomach worm in horses. Unreferenced.
- Haemonchus contortus - Disease in sheep and goats. Short stub.
- Heartworm - Disease in dogs, missing info on cats (important), ferrets, and pinnipeds.
- Hoose (disease) - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. Orphan, short stub.
- Verminous haemorrhagic dermatitis (cattle) - Disease in cattle. Stub.
- Muellerius capillaris - disease in sheep, goats and wild ruminants. Short stub.
Trematoda (flukes)
[edit]- Dicrocoelium dendriticum - AKA Lancet liver fluke. Disease in cattle.
- Fasciola gigantica - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats, etc. Short stub.
- Fasciola hepatica - Disease in cattle and sheep. Unreferenced.
- Fascioloides magna - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats, other ruminants.
Tapeworms
[edit]Protozoa
[edit]- Avian malaria
- Babesia divergens - Redwater fever in cattle. Stub.
- Blackhead disease - Disease in poultry caused by Histomonas meleagridis. Short stub.
- Brooklynella hostilis - Clownfish disease. Short stub, also written in 2nd person.
- Coccidia - Describes some diseases in dogs, cats, and cattle, many others missing.
- Covering sickness - AKA dourine, caused by Trypanosoma equiperdum, disease in horses, short stub.
- Cryptocaryon - Disease in fish. Stub.
- Cytauxzoonosis - Disease in cats. Have a feeling that image isn't free, needs better references.
- East Coast fever - Theileria parva
- Eimeria - Disease in poultry. Stub.
- Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis - Disease in horses.
- Histomonas meleagridis - Disease, including blackhead disease, in poultry. Stub.
- Ichthyophthirius multifiliis - Ich in fish.
- Leucocytozoon - Disease in birds. Unreferenced.
- Leukocytozoon andrewsi - Disease in chickens. Stub.
- Plasmodium gallinaceum - Malaria in poultry. Stub.
- Predatory dinoflagellate - fish parasite
- Surra - Disease in various species. Stub.
- Velvet (fish disease) - Oodinium. Stub, unreferenced.
Other
[edit]- Ceratomyxa shasta - Monogenea disease in salmonids.
- Filicollosis - Disease in poultry. Substub.
- Henneguya zschokkei - Myxosporean disease in salmonids.
- Kudoa thyrsites - Myxosporean disease in fish.
- Myxobolus cerebralis - Whirling disease in salmonids.
- Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae - Proliferative kidney disease in salmonids.
Other articles which contain veterinary medicine information
[edit]Ascarids (roundworms)
[edit]Strongyles
[edit]Hookworms
[edit]Whipworms
[edit]- Whipworm - Some discussion of the disease in dogs and cats, missing info on cattle, sheep, goats, pigs.
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Pinworms
[edit]Other nematodes
[edit]Trematoda (flukes)
[edit]- Fasciolosis (just totally rewritten, language corrections are requested)
Tapeworms
[edit]- Dipylidium caninum - Has a little info on cats.
- Echinococcus granulosus - Has a little info on dogs.
Protozoa
[edit]- Giardia lamblia - Discusses disease in dogs, cats, cattle, and sheep.
Other
[edit]Important missing articles
[edit]These may link to existing articles, just no vet med info present.
Ascarids (roundworms)
[edit]- Ascariasis in animals - Parascaris equorum, Toxocara vitulorum, Toxocara canis, Toxascaris leonina, and Toxocara cati
Strongyles
[edit]- Strongyloides - Threadworms in various species.
Hookworms
[edit]- Bunostomum - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats
- Gaigeria - Disease in sheep and goats, includes one of the most pathogenic hookworms (?)
- Hookworms in dogs and cats - Ancylostoma caninum, Ancylostoma braziliense, Uncinaria stenocephala
Whipworms
[edit]Pinworms
[edit]- Oxyuris equi - Disease in horses.
- Pinworms in rodents
Other nematodes
[edit]- Capillaria plica - Urinary tract parasite in dogs and cats.
- Dracunculus insignis - Disease in dogs.
- Eyeworm - Thelazia, disease in various species.
- Lungworms in animals - Aelurostrongylus abstrusus, Protostrongylus rufescens, Metastrongylus apri, Oslerus osleri, Capillaria aerophila, Filaroides hirthi, Parafilaroides decorus, Otostrongylus circumlitus, Halocercus lagenorhynchi
- Nematodirus - Disease in cattle and sheep.
- Oesophagostomum - Disease in cattle, sheep, and pigs.
- Ollulanus tricuspis - Disease in cats.
- Onchocerciasis - Disease in horses and cattle.
- Pelodera - AKA Rhabditic dermatitis in various species.
- Physaloptera - Stomach worm of dogs and cats
- Spirocerca lupi - Esophageal parasite of dogs.
- Stephanofilariasis - Disease in cattle.
- Stomach worms of cattle - Haemonchus placei, Ostertagia ostertagi, Trichostrongylus axei, Mecistocirrus digitatus
- Stomach worms of sheep and goats - Haemonchus contortus, Ostertagia circumcincta, Ostertagia trifurcata, Trichostrongylus axei, Mecistocirrus digitatus
- Stomach worms of swine - Hyostrongylus rubidus (red stomach worm), Ascarops strongylina, and Physocephalus sexalatus
Trematoda (flukes)
[edit]- Canine and feline liver fluke - Opisthorchis felineus, Opisthorchis viverrini, Clonorchis sinensis, Platynosomum concinnum, Metorchis albidus, Metorchis conjunctus, Eurytrema procyonis
- Eurytrema - Pancreatic fluke, disease cattle, sheep, and pigs.
- Intestinal fluke - Nanophyetus salmincola, Alaria alata, Alaria canis, Heterobilharzia americana
- Paragonimus - Lung flukes in dogs and cats.
- Paramphistome - AKA Amphistomes, Rumen flukes, Conical flukes. Disease in ruminants.
- Schistosomiasis - Disease in horses and ruminants
Tapeworms
[edit]- Tapeworms in animals - Moniezia, Thysanosoma actinioides, Taenia taeniaeformis, Echinococcus granulosus, Echinococcus multilocularis, Spirometra mansonoides, Anoplocephala magna, Anoplocephala perfoliata, and Paranoplocephala mamillana
Protozoa
[edit]- Amebiasis - Disease in dogs and cats.
- Babesiosis in animals
- Besnoitiosis - Disease in various species. Briefly covered at coccidia.
- Canine hepatozoonosis - Briefly covered at coccidia.
- Cryptosporidiosis - Disease in various species. Briefly covered at coccidia.
- East Coast fever - Theileria parva, disease in cattle.
- Encephalitozoonosis - Disease in rabbits.
- Neosporosis - Disease in various species, especially cattle and dogs. Briefly covered at coccidia.
- Sarcocystosis - Disease in various species.
- Theileriasis - Disease in ruminants.
- Toxoplasmosis - Disease in various species. Briefly covered at coccidia.
- Trichomoniasis - Disease in various species.
- Trypanosomiasis - Disease in various species.
- Canine visceral leishmaniasis
- Eimeria spp. or Eimeriosis- Disease in various species, especially domestic and wildlife ruminants, pigs and rodents
Other
[edit]- Macracanthorhynchus - AKA thorny-headed worm, disease in pigs and dogs.
- Oncicola canis - Another thorny-headed worm that affects dogs and cats.