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News

  • Science Daily News - Parasitic
    3 star rating News releases regarding medical research developments from universities, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and other scientific institutions. These announcements present new discoveries in therapeutics and disease management. ScienceDaily Magazine.

Full Text / MultiMedia

  • Flash Card Exchange - Parasitology
    4 star rating Reviews of clinical topics with "clickable" questions and answers. The "flashcards" are posted by worldwide medical students as study tools.
  • DPDx Parasites and Parasitic Diseases
    3 star rating Offers concise reviews on identification and diagnosis of parasites of public health concern, including diagnostic procedures, image library, and training information. Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Parasitology Online
    3 star rating REG An information resource in parasitology and tropical medicine with full text articles from a selected number of journals, a calendar of meetings, and protocols. Restricted registration or content areas. Elsevier Science.

Journals

  • Parasitology Journals at Medbioworld
    3 star rating A comprehensive directory of weblinks for journals in this specialty.
  • Parasitology
    2 star rating REG Original papers on parasitology and host-parasite relationships. Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Fee registration. Subscription fee. Cambridge University Press.

Textbooks

  • Textbook of Microbiology and Immunology - Parasitology Chapter
    5 star rating An award winning, on-line textbook with graphs, tables, illustrations, quizzes, and integrated weblinks. Produced from lectures to medical students by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
  • A- Z Guide to Parasitology
    4 star rating An illustrated review of ectoparasites and endoparasites. The sites author is Dr. Clive Bennett, Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Lecturer in Parasitology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.

Major Sites / Home Pages

Practice Guidelines / FAQs

  • Parasitic Diseases Practice Guidelines at NGC
    5 star rating Structured summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines drawn from well-regarded organizations. Users can compare competing guidelines' target populations, review methods, and quality of evidence. Links to full text. The National Guideline Clearinghouse, U.S. Government Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Images, Path./Clinical

  • Cutaneous Parasite Home Page
    5 star rating A dermatological menagerie of images and text of creatures that bite, sting, infect, and infest human skin.
  • Atlas of Medical Parasitology
    4 star rating A well-catagorized catalogue of parasite images and case reports. Carlo Denegri Foundation and Infectious Diseases Clinic at the University of Torino Italy
  • Entomology Insect Image Gallery
    4 star rating Annotated images presented online by the Department of Entomology of the Iowa State University.
  • Parasite Images at Ohio
    4 star rating Well annotated images of human parasites. Ohio State University.
  • Parasites and Parasitology
    4 star rating Contains over 550 images of more than 180 species of parasites, as well as information about the "biology" of many of these parasitic species. Ohio State University .
  • The Parasitology Images List
    4 star rating A collection of images of medically important parasites. Presents stages of development of commonly encountered clinical specimens. Queensland University of Technology.
  • DPDx Parasite Image Library
    3 star rating Thumbnail images accompanied by text notes on causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention .
  • Parasite Images at Chiang Mai
    2 star rating Parasite images prepared from specimens at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
  • Images de Parasites at the Faculte de Pharmacie
    1 star rating Parasite images of specimens. Parasitologie Faculte de Pharmacie, Lille, France.

Directories

Lyme Disease

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Major Sites / Home Pages

  • Lyme Disease Network
    1 star rating Presents annotated links to diagnosis and treatment information and pictures of ticks directed to a general audience.

Malaria

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Searches

News

Full Text / MultiMedia

  • "Malaria" Powerpoint Lectures
    5 star rating Powerpoint lectures from medical schools, medical societies, etc. collected by the Google search service.
  • Malaria Journal
    5 star rating Original papers on all aspects of malaria, its parasites and vectors, human host, environment, health policies, socio-economic and intersectoral issues. Published by Biomed Central.
  • Malaria and Infectious Diseases in Africa
    1 star rating Article abstracts on malaria prevention and control. SmithKline Beecham International. Published in 2000.

Images, Path./Clinical

Educational Materials

  • Malaria Resources from the CDC
    4 star rating Topic reviews on "prescription drugs for preventing malaria", "preventing malaria in infants and children", etc. Centers for Disease Control.
  • Malaria and Health
    3 star rating REG Provides a malaria resource for both the travel medicine health care professional and the international traveller. It includes an overview of the disease, endemic areas, advice for patients, drug treatment and prophylaxis. Restricted registration or content areas. Novartis Pharma AG.
  • WHO/TDR Malaria Database
    3 star rating Information on malaria research ranging from sequences to conference news. Funded by the UNDP/World Bank/WHO/TDR Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
  • Malaria Database WWW Page
    1 star rating This page fosters research into malaria by providing useful information to workers in the field. Department of Microbiology, Monash University.

Forums

  • Malaria Mail List Web Site
    1 star rating Covers the general subject of malaria. Includes information for subscribing to the malaria mail list. Over 800 subscribers.

Tropical Medicine

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Full Text / MultiMedia

Directories

  • MedWeb Tropical Medicine
    1 star rating Well-maintained links to guides, sites, journals, organizations, and documents for a general audience. Enter "tropical medicine" in search field for sites.

Educational Materials

  • Tulane Tropical Medicine Web Page
    1 star rating Current global scientific research projects, US and international academic degree programs, and information on malaria research, disease epidemiology, and chloroquine drug resistance.

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