Talk:Human parasite

Bad article

This isn't a very good article - its too orientated on the history side of things. I can't add to it myself as I don't know enough about it, hopefully someone more knoweldegable than my self can add to it though! I think it would benefit from a list of common human parasites Cxk271 (talk) 19:35, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. I came here looking for a list of common human parasites, not historical documentation on the subject. However, the history might be useful added as a subsection of this article. mz (talk) 21:32, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Hookworm

This section is laughably bad, seriously. Ingestion is a rare way to contract hookworm and is only possible with one species, A. Duodenale. And only then under unusual circumstances. Most commonly, as implied by the rest of the entry it is acquired by coming into skin contact with contaminated soil, the larvae enter through the skin and then make their way to the intestine via the lungs. That is what causes the rash, they do not just cause skin eruptions as is implied by the entry.

Besides this although I understand the need to start somewhere, and hookworm with whipworm is one of the most common parasites of man, equally brief references to the other parasites of man (brace yourself, they number in the thousands) could be generated as well. But it is probably better to provide links to the existing areas of wikipedia that deal with particular parasites, or at the last to refer to them for content that is well written and referenced. This is a very poor example and I believe it should be rewritten or deleted rather than left in this misleading and inaccurate state.

FQ1513 (talk) 02:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Treatment

I think a section on various treatments for human parasites should be included in the article. Both historic and modern methods. Any takers?

Henry123ifa (talk) 20:17, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Diagnosis/susceptibility

The article has little on diagnosis of human parasitosis. There is some evidence on susceptibility testing, which is commonplace for monocellular organisms but not that much for parasites: doi10.1128/CMR.00111-16 JFW | T@lk 18:34, 14 June 2017 (UTC)