Medical Importance of Facultative Parasites | ||
| Parasitologists United Journal | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 27 April 2025 | ||
| Document Type: Review Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/puj.2025.364431.1288 | ||
| Authors | ||
| shimaa mohammed abdel aal* 1; fatma mamdouh azouz2; noha amin3; Mousa Abdel Gawad4 | ||
| 1parasitology department,faculty of medicine,cairo university cairo,egypt | ||
| 2parasitology department,faculty of medicine ,cairo university | ||
| 3Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University1 and Faculty of Medicine | ||
| 4Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Alainy University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Facultative parasitic infections recently have an obvious effect on human morbidity and mortality, especially in immunosuppressed patients. Change of life cycle stages of facultative parasites between a free-living life and parasitic life according to environmental conditions is one of its most important features. Prevention of these parasites is done by increasing the level of medical knowledge of the people about facultative parasites, knowing habitat in which these parasites spent their free living stages and necessity of hand washing, safe disposal human feces and water sanitation. The aim of this review is to precisely discuss most of these parasites (helminths including Strongyloides species, protozoa including free living ameba and arthropods including flies larva triggering facultative myiasis as an example of each class) together with associated medical conditions | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Facultative; Parasites; Strongyloides; facultative myiasis; free living ameba | ||
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