General Web Links on Parasites and Parasitism

You might want to browse through the web site of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP).   Scroll down the homepage and you will find several links to images of parasites.

Steve Upton at Kansas State University has an excellent presentation of images of parasites in the web site for his human parasitology course.

The Swedish University Network (SUNET) has a wonderful collections of images of a variety of types.   Among the categories is "animals".

• Take some down time and simply enjoy some of the wonderful images of various "hosts".
• If you scroll through the "animals" table of contents, you will find a "parasites" entry that has an excellent scanning micrograph of Giardia.

Parasitic Protozoan Web Links

Steve Upton at Kansas State University has an excellent presentation of images of parasites in the web site for his human parasitology course.   Here's a great web site dealing with Toxoplasma gondii.

Dr. Upton has very good web sites dealing with Cryptosporidium, with Cyclospora cayetanensis, and with parasites in general.

Visit the course web page of Dr. Mark Wiser at Tulane University.    He has links to materials in his complete course on Protozoology course on the main campus and to selected lectures he gives in the Medical Parasitology course.     The latter focus mainly on Apicomplexa, especially Plasmodium.

Parasitic Worm Web Links

Dr. Steve Upton's web site for his human parasitology course at Kansas State University has an excellent presentation of images of parasites including those of helminths.

Visit a website on frog deformities caused by metacercaria of Ribeiroia ondatrae.

Download a esearch article on frog deformities caused by metacercaria of Ribeiroia ondatrae.