Web Directory

» Alveolar Hydatid Disease - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases
   Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/alveolarechinococcosis/default.htm

» Bad Bug Book: Diphyllobothrium spp.
   Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations and outbreaks.
   http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/ucm070785.htm

» CDC: Division of Parasitic Diseases - Cysticercosis
   Fact sheets and articles on this disease caused by tapeworms.
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/cysticercosis/default.htm

» Diphyllobothriasis - CDC DPDx
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Diphyllobothriasis.htm

» Echinococcosis (Hydatid Disease)
   Factsheet with distribution, clinical findings, treatment, and prevention.
   http://bearspace.baylor.edu/Charles_Kemp/www/echinococcosis.htm

» Echintas
   Research network on the epidemiology of Echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis in Asia
   http://www.uzh.ch/paras/echintas/index.html

» Hydatid Cyst
   Case reports on the disease with images from the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
   http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol43_5/4350054.htm

» Hymenolepiasis - CDC DPDx
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Hymenolepiasis.htm

» MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Taeniasis
   Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001391.htm

» Medmicro: Cestodes
   Medical and scientific information on tapeworms and the diseases they cause.
   http://www.utmb.edu/gsbs/microbook/ch089.htm

» NHS Choices: Tapeworm Infections
   Provides information on these parasites that can live in the bowel. Includes details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, complications and prevention.
   http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Tapeworm-infections/

» Neurocysticercosis
   Comprehensive information on the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system caused by the larval form of the tapeworm Taenia solium.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360956/pdf/postmedj00090-0003.pdf

» eMedicine - Cystic Echinococcosis
   Article by Enrico Brunetti, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/216432-overview

» eMedicine - Cysticercosis
   Article by Ryan Tenzer, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/781845-overview

» eMedicine - Diphyllobothriasis
   Article by Derek Linklater, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/216089-overview

» eMedicine - Diphyllobothrium Latum Infection
   Article by Alia Rai, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/997314-overview

» eMedicine - Echinococcosis
   Article by Dominique A Vuitton, MD, PhD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/214349-overview

» eMedicine - Hydatid Cysts
   Article by Imad S Dandan, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/178648-overview

» eMedicine - Tapeworm Infestation
   Article by Raquel Mora, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/786292-overview

» eMedicine: Neurocysticercosis
   Article by Mohammed J Zafar, MD, FAAN.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1168656-overview