PARASITES AND VECTORS OF DISEASE
BIOL 40500 / 50500

USEFUL PARASITOLOGICAL LINKS

PUBLICATIONS BY BRUCE SMITH

GENERAL SITES WITH A DIVERSITY OF LINKS, INCLUDING IMAGE LIBRARIES

• World Wide Web Virtual Library - Parasitology
• Ectoparasites and Endoparasites
• Cryptosporidium/Coccidial Research (deceptive: also links to other parasites)
• Homepage of Parasites

MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Emerging Infectious Diseases (Online Journal) (CDC)
• Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (CDC)
• Arboviral Encephalitides (CDC)
• World Health Organization
• Surveillance and Response (CSR) (WHO Communicable Diseases)
• Outbreak News (WHO)
• Weekly Epidemiological Record (WHO)
• ProMED Mail
• Diagnosing Medical Parasites Through Fecal Analysis
• CDC: Identification and Diagnosis of Parasites of Public Health Concern
• WHO informal working group on Echinococcus
• WHO infectious diseases

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Tulane Univ. Dept. of Tropical Medicine

MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY AND VECTOR BIOLOGY

• Iowa State Entomology Index: Medical Entomology
• Iowa State U. Entomology Image Gallery
• Northwest Mosquito and Vector Control Association
• Los Angeles County West Vector Control
• New Jersey Mosquito Homepage - Mosquito Links
• Malaria Foundation International
• Pennsylvania's West Nile Virus Surveillance Program
• CDC: West Nile Virus
• U.S. Geological Service: West Nile Virus

SOCIETIES

• American Society of Parasitologists
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Entomological Society of America

VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

• Oklahoma State Univ. College of Veterinary Medicine (image library)
• Veterninary Parasitology Videos
• Univ. of Penn. School of Veterinary Medicine:

  -- home page (links to various options)
  --diagnosis of veterinary endoparasitic infections
  --Veterinary Parasitology course (lab demos, images)

WILDLIFE PARASITOLOGY

• U.S. Geological Survey, National Wildlife Center

PARASITE IMAGE LIBRARIES (also see general sites, above)

• Atlas of Medical Parasitology
• CDC: Identification and Diagnosis of Parasites of Public Health Concern (images)

HISTOLOGY ATLASES (healthy tissue, for comparison)

• PERLjam Histology Atlas
• JayDoc HistoWeb