Parasitosis
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| B89 | Unspecified parasitic disease |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
As Parasitic infection or parasitosis is called infectious diseases and infestations that are not by viruses , bacteria or fungi are triggered, but by other, relatively sophisticated creatures that in other animals (called hosts parasites). Parasites can be unicellular protozoa or worms (helminths). Also, lice , fleas , mites , or flies , which lay their eggs in open wounds lay, are among the parasites (called ectoparasites ).
Differentiation according to phases of infection
A distinction is made between the following infection phases:
- ; Prepatent infection: Describes the phase of a parasite infection from the ingestion or penetration of infectious parasite stages to their completed development into adult, egg-laying parasites and the appearance of their reproductive products in the respective body excretions of the host.
- ; Patent infection: Describes the phase of a parasite infection from the time of complete development into full-grown, egg-laying parasites and the first appearance of their reproductive products in the body excretions of the host.
The above terms are primarily used in veterinary medicine for infection with intestinal parasites such as worms (helminths) in small animals and in human medicine for zoonoses .
Differentiation according to etiology
According to etiological aspects - the causes of the disease - the following types of infection are distinguished here:
Common parasitoses in humans
See also parasites of humans
- Acanthamoeba infections
- Amebiasis (infection with Entamoeba histolytica )
- Ankylostomiasis (hookworm disease caused by hookworms such as Ancylostoma duodenale or Necator americanus )
- Infections caused by Ascaris lumbricoides
- Babesiosis (caused by Babesia microti )
- Balantidiasis (due to Balantidium coli )
- Infections caused by intestinal tapeworms (cestodes)
- Cysticercosis
- Blastocystis hominis infections
- Infections by Cryptosporidium species
- Infections caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis
- Infections caused by Dientamoeba fragilis
- Enterobius vermicularis infections
- Infections caused by Giardia lamblia
- Hymenolepsis nana (dwarf tapeworm) infections
- Isospora belli infections
- Leishmaniasis
- Microsporidiasis
- Infections caused by Naegleria species ( e.g. Naegleria fowleri )
- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
- Schistosomiasis (schistosomiasis)
- Strongyloides stercoralis infections
- Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati infections
- Toxoplasmosis (due to Toxoplasma gondii )
- Infections from Trichinella spiralis
- Infections caused by Trichomonas vaginalis
- Infections caused by Trichuris trichuria
- Trypanosomiasis
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alphabetical directory for the ICD-10-WHO version 2019, volume 3. German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI), Cologne, 2019, p. 678
- ^ Marianne Abele-Horn: Antimicrobial Therapy. Decision support for the treatment and prophylaxis of infectious diseases. With the collaboration of Werner Heinz, Hartwig Klinker, Johann Schurz and August Stich, 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Peter Wiehl, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-927219-14-4 , pp. 289-295.
