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Informational Tables

- 1.1 Parasite Classification | - 1.2 Body Site, Specimens, Procedures, Parasites, Comments | - 1.3 STAT Testing in Parasitology | - 1.4 Test Issues and Reports: Computer Report Comments| - 1.5 Rapid Diagnostic Testing
- 2.1 Stool Testing Order Recommendations | - 2.2 Fecal specimens for parasites: options for collection and processinga2 | - 2.3 Preservatives used for Stool Specimens
- 3.1 Body Sites and Specimen Collection | - 3.2 Body sites and the most common parasites recovered | - 3.3 Body Site, Specimens and Recommended Stain | - 3.4 Examination of tissues and body fluids | - 3.5 Parasitic Infections: Clinical Findings Healthy/Compromised Hosts | - 3.6 Microscope Calibration | - 3.7 Serologic, Antigen, and Probe Tests for Parasite Diagnosis
- 4.1 Protozoa: Intestinal Tract, Urogenital System: Key Characteristics | - 4.2 Tissue Protozoa: Characteristics | - 4.3 Tips on Performance of Fecal Immunoassays for Intestinal Protozoa
5.1 Helminths: Key Characteristics | 5.2 Helminth Parasites Associated with Eosinophilia
6.1 Reference Laboratory for Parasite Blood Testing | 6.2 Parasites Found in Blood: Characteristics
7.1 Malaria (5 Species) (2 P. ovale subspecies) | 7.2 Malaria (5 Species, Images) | 7.3 Rapid Malaria Testing (BinaxNOW Malaria Test) | 7.4 Malaria Parasitemia Method | 7.5 Malaria Parasitemia Interpretation
- USE OF A REFERENCE LABORATORY FOR PARASITE BLOOD DIAGNOSTIC TESTING (Including the Binax Rapid Test and Report Comments)

- HELMINTH PARASITES ASSOCIATED WITH EOSINOPHILIA | - Histology: Staining Characteristics - Table 1 | - Histological Identification of Parasites - Table 2 | - Microscope Calibration | - Figures for Histology Identification Table 2
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3.2 Body sites and the most common parasites recovered (trophozoites, cysts, oocysts, spores, adults, larvae, eggs, amastigotes, and trypomastigotes)1

Site (s)

Parasites

Blood

RBCs

Plasmodium spp.
Babesia spp.

WBCs

Leishmania donovani complex
Toxoplasma gondii

Whole blood or plasma

Trypanosoma spp.
Microfilariae

Bone marrow

Leishmania donovani complex
Trypanosoma cruzi
Plasmodium spp.
Toxoplasma gondii
Microsporidia (after bone marrow transplantation; often kidney complications);other immunocompromised patients

Central nervous system

Taenia solium (cysticerci)
Taenia spp. (coenurus)
Baylisascaris procyonis
Echinococcus spp.
Naegleria fowleri
Acanthamoeba spp.
Balamuthia mandrillaris
Toxoplasma gondii
Microsporidia
Trypanosoma spp.
Toxocara spp. (visceral larva migrans)
Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Cutaneous ulcers

Leishmania spp.
Acanthamoeba spp.
Balamuthia mandrillaris
Entamoeba histolytica

Eyes

Acanthamoeba spp.
Toxoplasma gondii
Loa loa
Dirofilaria spp.
Microsporidia
Toxocara spp. (ocular larva migrans)
Baylisascaris procyonis
Thelazia spp.

Intestinal Tract

Entamoeba histolytica
Entamoeba dispar
Entamoeba coli
Entamoeba hartmanni
Endolimax nana
Iodamoeba buetschlii
Blastocystis spp.
Giardia duodenalis (G. lamblia, G. intestinalis)
Chilomastix mesnili
Dientamoeba fragilis
Pentatrichomonas hominis
Balantioides coli
Cryptosporidium spp.
Cyclospora cayetanensis
Cystoisospora belli
Enterocytozoon bieneusi
Encephalitozoon spp.
Ascaris lumbricoides
Enterobius vermicularis
Hookworm
Strongyloides stercoralis
Trichuris trichiura
Hymenolepis nana
Hymenolepis diminuta
Taenia saginata
Taenia solium
Diphyllobothrium latum2
Clonorchis spp.
Opisthorchis spp.
Paragonimus spp.
Schistosoma spp.
Fasciolopsis buski
Fasciola hepatica
Metagonimus yokogawai
Heterophyes heterophyes

Liver, spleen

Echinococcus spp.
Entamoeba histolytica
Leishmania spp.
Microsporidia
Toxocara spp.
Baylisascaris procyonis
Plasmodium spp.
Toxoplasma gondii
Capillaria hepatica
Clonorchis spp.
Opisthorchis spp
Fasciola hepatica

Lungs3

Entamoeba histolytica
Cryptosporidium spp4
Toxoplasma gondii
Echinococcus spp.
Paragonimus spp.
Ascaris lumbricoides
Toxocara spp.
Baylisascaris procyonis
Ancylostoma duodenale
Necator americanus
Angiostrongylus cantonensis
Dirofilaria immitis
Strongyloides stercoralis

Muscles

Taenia solium (cysticerci)
Taenia spp. (coenurus)
Trichinella spp.
Onchocerca volvulus (nodules)
Trypanosoma cruzi
Microsporidia5
Sarcocystis spp.
Gnathostoma spp.

Skin

Leishmania spp.
Acanthamoeba spp.
Balamuthia mandrillaris
Onchocerca volvulus
Mansonella streptocerca
Ancylostoma spp. (cutaneous larva migrans)
Gnathostoma spp.
Lagochilascaris spp.

Urogenital system

Trichomonas vaginalis
Schistosoma spp.
Microsporidia
Microfilariae, multiple genera
Enterobius vermicularis

1 Trophozoites, cysts, oocysts, spores, adults, larvae, eggs, amastigotes, and trypomastigotes. This table does not contain every parasite that has been recovered from the designated body site.

2 Diphyllobothrium is now listed in several genera, including: Dibothriocephalus, Adenocephalus, Diphyllobothrium with several species – Overall nomenclature appears to be in transition.

3 Occasionally, larvae of some of the filarial worms (microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia spp.) and other nematodes (primarily Strongyloides) can be seen in specimens from the lungs

4 Disseminated in severely immunosuppressed individuals.

5 The genera, Pleistophora and Trachipleistophora have been documented in muscles. All microsporidia are now classified with the fungi.