Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Internal parasites (including protozoa) and parasitic diseases

Stand alone veterinary medicine articles

Ascarids (roundworms)

• Ascaridia galli - Causes ascariasis in poultry. stub.
• Large roundworm of pigs - Ascaris suum. Stub, cleanup.
• Toxocara canis - roundworm of dogs
• Toxocara cati - roundworm of cats

Strongyles

• Cylicocyclus nassatus - Disease in horses. Substub.
• Gapeworm - Disease in poultry. Short stub.
• Metastrongylosis - Disease in pigs. Substub, possible merge with Metastrongylus.
• Metastrongylus - Disease (verminous bronchitis) in pigs. Stub.
• Moose sickness - caused by P. tenuis
• Muellerius capillaris - cattle - hair lungworm
• Parelaphostrongylus tenuis
• Strongyle - Disease in horses. Substub.

Other nematodes

• Dictyocaulus - Lungworm. Disease in horses, cattle, deer, missing disease in sheep.
• Dioctophyma renale - Giant kidney worm. Disease in dogs and mink. Orphan, stub.
• Elaeophora schneideri - Disease in sheep, goats, elk, moose. Orphan, stub.
• Filariasis (domestic animals) - Disease in dogs, horses, cattle, missing info in poultry. Stub.
• Habronema - Stomach worm in horses. Unreferenced.
• Haemonchus contortus - Disease in sheep and goats. Short stub.
• Heartworm - Disease in dogs, missing info on cats (important), ferrets, and pinnipeds.
• Hoose (disease) - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. Orphan, short stub.
• Verminous haemorrhagic dermatitis (cattle) - Disease in cattle. Stub.
• Muellerius capillaris - disease in sheep, goats and wild ruminants. Short stub.

Trematoda (flukes)

• Dicrocoelium dendriticum - AKA Lancet liver fluke. Disease in cattle.
• Fasciola gigantica - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats, etc. Short stub.
• Fasciola hepatica - Disease in cattle and sheep. Unreferenced.
• Fascioloides magna - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats, other ruminants.

Protozoa

• Avian malaria
• Babesia divergens - Redwater fever in cattle. Stub.
• Blackhead disease - Disease in poultry caused by Histomonas meleagridis. Short stub.
• Brooklynella hostilis - Clownfish disease. Short stub, also written in 2nd person.
• Coccidia - Describes some diseases in dogs, cats, and cattle, many others missing.
• Covering sickness - AKA dourine, caused by Trypanosoma equiperdum, disease in horses, short stub.
• Cryptocaryon - Disease in fish. Stub.
• Cytauxzoonosis - Disease in cats. Have a feeling that image isn't free, needs better references.
• East Coast fever - Theileria parva
• Eimeria - Disease in poultry. Stub.
• Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis - Disease in horses.
• Histomonas meleagridis - Disease, including blackhead disease, in poultry. Stub.
• Ichthyophthirius multifiliis - Ich in fish.
• Leucocytozoon - Disease in birds. Unreferenced.
• Leukocytozoon andrewsi - Disease in chickens. Stub.
• Plasmodium gallinaceum - Malaria in poultry. Stub.
• Predatory dinoflagellate - fish parasite
• Surra - Disease in various species. Stub.
• Velvet (fish disease) - Oodinium. Stub, unreferenced.

Other

• Ceratomyxa shasta - Monogenea disease in salmonids.
• Filicollosis - Disease in poultry. Substub.
• Henneguya zschokkei - Myxosporean disease in salmonids.
• Kudoa thyrsites - Myxosporean disease in fish.
• Myxobolus cerebralis - Whirling disease in salmonids.
• Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae - Proliferative kidney disease in salmonids.

Other articles which contain veterinary medicine information

Whipworms

• Whipworm - Some discussion of the disease in dogs and cats, missing info on cattle, sheep, goats, pigs.

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Trematoda (flukes)

• Fasciolosis (just totally rewritten, language corrections are requested)

Tapeworms

• Dipylidium caninum - Has a little info on cats.
• Echinococcus granulosus - Has a little info on dogs.

Protozoa

• Giardia lamblia - Discusses disease in dogs, cats, cattle, and sheep.

Important missing articles

These may link to existing articles, just no vet med info present.

Ascarids (roundworms)

• Ascariasis in animals - Parascaris equorum, Toxocara vitulorum, Toxocara canis, Toxascaris leonina, and Toxocara cati

Strongyles

• Strongyloides - Threadworms in various species.

Hookworms

• Bunostomum - Disease in cattle, sheep, goats
• Gaigeria - Disease in sheep and goats, includes one of the most pathogenic hookworms (?)
• Hookworms in dogs and cats - Ancylostoma caninum, Ancylostoma braziliense, Uncinaria stenocephala

Pinworms

• Oxyuris equi - Disease in horses.
• Pinworms in rodents

Other nematodes

• Capillaria plica - Urinary tract parasite in dogs and cats.
• Dracunculus insignis - Disease in dogs.
• Eyeworm - Thelazia, disease in various species.
• Lungworms in animals - Aelurostrongylus abstrusus, Protostrongylus rufescens, Metastrongylus apri, Oslerus osleri, Capillaria aerophila, Filaroides hirthi, Parafilaroides decorus, Otostrongylus circumlitus, Halocercus lagenorhynchi
• Nematodirus - Disease in cattle and sheep.
• Oesophagostomum - Disease in cattle, sheep, and pigs.
• Ollulanus tricuspis - Disease in cats.
• Onchocerciasis - Disease in horses and cattle.
• Pelodera - AKA Rhabditic dermatitis in various species.
• Physaloptera - Stomach worm of dogs and cats
• Spirocerca lupi - Esophageal parasite of dogs.
• Stephanofilariasis - Disease in cattle.
• Stomach worms of cattle - Haemonchus placei, Ostertagia ostertagi, Trichostrongylus axei, Mecistocirrus digitatus
• Stomach worms of sheep and goats - Haemonchus contortus, Ostertagia circumcincta, Ostertagia trifurcata, Trichostrongylus axei, Mecistocirrus digitatus
• Stomach worms of swine - Hyostrongylus rubidus (red stomach worm), Ascarops strongylina, and Physocephalus sexalatus

Trematoda (flukes)

• Canine and feline liver fluke - Opisthorchis felineus, Opisthorchis viverrini, Clonorchis sinensis, Platynosomum concinnum, Metorchis albidus, Metorchis conjunctus, Eurytrema procyonis
• Eurytrema - Pancreatic fluke, disease cattle, sheep, and pigs.
• Intestinal fluke - Nanophyetus salmincola, Alaria alata, Alaria canis, Heterobilharzia americana
• Paragonimus - Lung flukes in dogs and cats.
• Paramphistome - AKA Amphistomes, Rumen flukes, Conical flukes. Disease in ruminants.
• Schistosomiasis - Disease in horses and ruminants

Tapeworms

• Tapeworms in animals - Moniezia, Thysanosoma actinioides, Taenia taeniaeformis, Echinococcus granulosus, Echinococcus multilocularis, Spirometra mansonoides, Anoplocephala magna, Anoplocephala perfoliata, and Paranoplocephala mamillana

Protozoa

• Amebiasis - Disease in dogs and cats.
• Babesiosis in animals
• Besnoitiosis - Disease in various species. Briefly covered at coccidia.
• Canine hepatozoonosis - Briefly covered at coccidia.
• Cryptosporidiosis - Disease in various species. Briefly covered at coccidia.
• East Coast fever - Theileria parva, disease in cattle.
• Encephalitozoonosis - Disease in rabbits.
• Neosporosis - Disease in various species, especially cattle and dogs. Briefly covered at coccidia.
• Sarcocystosis - Disease in various species.
• Theileriasis - Disease in ruminants.
• Toxoplasmosis - Disease in various species. Briefly covered at coccidia.
• Trichomoniasis - Disease in various species.
• Trypanosomiasis - Disease in various species.
• Canine visceral leishmaniasis
• Eimeria spp. or Eimeriosis- Disease in various species, especially domestic and wildlife ruminants, pigs and rodents

Other

• Macracanthorhynchus - AKA thorny-headed worm, disease in pigs and dogs.
• Oncicola canis - Another thorny-headed worm that affects dogs and cats.