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  • Ankylostomes, ascaris, trichostrongyles? : l''Alcopar' expulse tous ces parasites ... / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (the Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • Ankylostomes, ascaris, trichostrongyles? : l''Alcopar' expulse tous ces parasites ... / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (the Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • Ankylostomes, ascaris, trichostrongyles? : l''Alcopar' expulse tous ces parasites ... / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (the Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • Malaria parasites in the tissues of anopheles mosquitoes, as seen through a microscope. Colour lithograph by W. Griggs after R. Fielding-Ould, ca. 1905.
  • On animal and vegetable parasites of the human body : a manual of their natural history, diagnosis, and treatment / by Frederich Küchenmeister ; translated from the 2nd German ed., by Edwin Lankester.
  • Bilhazia parasite, Manson
  • Salmon sea louse, fish parasite
  • Tropical Diseases, Parasite of quatan infection.
  • Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite
  • Sir R. Ross: discovery of malaria parasite
  • Plasmodium ookinetes, malaria parasite life cycle, SEM
  • Leishmania mexicana parasite in the promastigote stage, SEM
  • Blister pack of chloroquine antimalarial tablets. Chloroquine is used to prevent and treat the infectious disease malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites (Plasmodium species) which enter the blood when inefcted mosquitoes feed. Side effects of chloroquine include vomitting, nausea and headache. Retinopathy (damage to the retina) is a rare eye condition associated with long term use over many years. Drug resistance against antimalarials is increasing.
  • The bandicot tick (Ixodes reduvius), vector of the louping-ill parasite. Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Tapeworms of poultry : how to control them / [prepared by the Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Tapeworms of poultry : how to control them / [prepared by the Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Tapeworms of poultry : how to control them / [prepared by the Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service]
  • A cow wearing a rosette above an image of a parasite that affects cattle: advert for Valbazen, a cure for parasitic cattle infections in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ultravetis, ca. 2000.
  • Life-cycle stages of the parasite Haemogregarina muris and its vector, the mite (Lelaps echidninus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Un nouveau parasite trouvé dans le sang des malades atteints de fièvre palustre : origine parasitaire des accidents de l'impaludisme / par A. Laveran.
  • Secunderabad, India: the room in which Ronald Ross attributed the transmission of the malaria parasite to the anopheles mosquito. Photograph by Raja Deen Dayal & Sons, 19--.
  • Plumbago auriculata Blume Plumbaginaceae Plumbago, Leadwort. Distribution: South Africa. It is used traditionally to treat warts, broken bones and wounds. It is taken as a snuff for headaches and as an emetic to dispel bad dreams. A stick of the plant is placed in the thatch of huts to ward off lightning.” Iwou (1993) reports other Plumbago species are used to cause skin blistering, treat leprosy, induce blistering, and to treat piles, parasites and to induce abortions. The genus name derives from the Latin for lead, but authors differ as to whether it was used as a treatment of lead poisoning, or that when it was used for eye conditions the skin turned the colour of lead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Snail with parasitic cyst
  • Framed, wall illustrations: parasitism, symbiosis.
  • Cow tongue with parasitic tapeworm cysts
  • A parasitic flat-worm. Coloured etching.
  • Horse intestine with multiple attached parasitic worms
  • Several species of parasitic flat-worm. Coloured etching, ca. 1795.
  • A young Indian boy with a parasitic headless attachment. Photograph, 18--.