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Arthropods, helminths and other insects.

Arthropods and diseases spread through arthropods

  • Arthropod bites and stings
  • Ant bites and stings
  • Mite
  • Bee and wasp stings
  • Beetles
    • Lax beetle skin disease
    • Paedarus dermatitis
  • Caterpillars and moths
  • Demodex
  • Flea bites

    • Bacillary angiomatosis
    • Catscratch disease
    • Plague
    • Rickettsial infection
    • Tungiasis
  • Flies
    • Myiasis
  • Lice

    • Body lice

      • Rickettsia typhi
    • Lice
    • Pubic lice
  • Mosquitoes
    • Leishmaniasis
    • Malaria
    • Dengue fever
    • Zika virus
  • Papular urticaria
  • Mites

    • Scabies
    • Institutional scabies
    • Scabies with scab
    • Bird Pinch infestation
  • Sand flies
    • Carrion's disease
  • spider bites
  • Tick bites

    • Lyme's desease
    • Recurrent tick-borne fever
    • Tularemia
    • Babesiosis
    • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Rickettsian Spotted Fevers

    • Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis

Protozoa

Some Protozoan infections are transmitted through arthropods vectors above.

  • Amebiasis
  • Balamuthia mandrillaris infection
  • Pneumocystosis (now classified as a fungus)

  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Trichomoniasis
  • African trypanosomiasis
  • American trypanosomiasis

Helminths (worms)

Nematodes (roundworms)

  • Larva migrans
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Filariasis including loiasis and heartworm

  • Hookworms
  • Toxocariasis
  • Intestinal worms
  • Strongyloidiasis
  • Trichuriasis or roundworm
  • Gnatostomiasis

  • Dracunculiasis
  • Ascariasis
  • Streptocerciasis
  • Trichinosis

Trematodes (trematodes)

  • Schistosomiasis
  • Swimmer's itch
  • Paragonimiasis
  • Fascioliasis

Cestodes (tapeworms)

  • Taeniasis (tapeworm), cysticercosis
  • Spargonosis
  • Echinococcus

Jellyfish larva

  • Sea bather eruption

Related conditions

  • Parasitic delusions
  • Dust mites allergy

Treatments for insects, mites, worms and parasites.

  • Insecticides
  • Insect repellent
  • Ivermectin
  • Mebendazole