Spirurida

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• Loa loa: Filariasis Information from Wikipedia on this nematode worm, its life cycle and the diseases it causes.
• Wuchereria bancrofti Research project by Brianna Krout on this parasitic nematode including its classification, host interactions, where it is found and elephantiasis, the disease it can cause.
• Life-cycle of Onchocerca volvulus Photographs and information on the parasites that cause onchocerciasis are which are transmitted from human to human through the bites of blackfly vectors.
• Onchocerca volvulus Photographs and information on this parasite, the causative agent of River Blindness, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease.
• Wuchereria bancrofti Photographs and information on this parasite, the causative agent of Bancroftian Filariasis, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease.
• Brugia malayi Photographs and information on the caustive agent of human lymphatic filariasis, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease it causes.
• Loa loa Photographs and information on this cutaneous filarial parasite of humans.
• Haemonchus contortus Photographs and information on this filarial parasite of ruminants, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the condition.
• Dracunculus medinensis: The Guinea Worm Photographs and information on this parasite of humans, its distribution, life cycle and the pathology of the disease it causes.