Index

abomasal worms
acanthocephalan worms
acaricide
Ascaris
acute toxicity
adulticides
Aedes
Aelurostrongylus
aesthetic considerations and parasites
aetiology/aetiological agent
African trypanosomosis
agriculture and parasites
albendazole
allergic dermatitis, seasonal
alopecia
alternative parasite control technologies
- biological control
- breeding for resistance/resilience
- delaying parasite resistance
- enhancing host resistance
- nutrition
alveolar cyst
alveolar hydatid disease
amastigote
Amblyomma
American dog tick
amino-acetonitrile derivatives (AADs)
amitraz
amoebae 82,
Ancylostoma
Ancylostomatoidea see hookworms
angiostrongylosis
Angiostrongylus
animal welfare and parasites
Anisakis
Anopheles
Anoplocephala
antennae of insects
anthelmintic drugs
- benzimidazoles (BZDs)
  - activity
  - general spectrum
  - mode of action
  - pharmacokinetics
- combination and multiple active parasiticides
- levamisole group
  - general spectrum
- macrocyclic lactones (MLs)
  - activity
  - general spectrum
  - pharmacokinetics
- newer chemical groups
  - amino-acetonitrile derivatives (AADs)
  - depsipeptides
  - spiroindoles
antibodies
anticoccidial drugs
- ionophores
- sulphonamides
antifeeding effects
antigens
antiprotozoan drugs
apical complex
apicomplexa
- blood-borne
  - Babesia
  - Theileria
apoptosis
- definition
- parasite influence upon
Argas
Argasidae (soft ticks)
- life-cycle
arthropods 25,
- ectoparasiticides
  - basic concepts
  - important examples
  - insect growth regulators (IGRs)
  - problems associated with use
- insects
  - body structure
  - bugs (Hemiptera)
  - fleas (Siphonaptera)
  - flies (Diptera)
  - lice (Phthiraptera)
  - naming conventions
- major parasitic groups
- mange mites
  - infestation range
  - subsurface
  - surface
- other arthropods
- skin parasites
- ticks
  - body structure
  - hard ticks
  - soft ticks
ascarid nematodes
- Ascaris
- Ascaridia
- characteristics
- epidemiology
- hepatotracheal migration
- Heterakis
- important examples
- infective stage
- life-cycle
- Parascaris
- pathogenicity
- poultry
- somatic infection
- Toxascaris
- Toxocara
  - T. canis
  - T. vitulorum
Ascaridia
Ascaris
- in pigs
- in humans
Ascarops
assassin bugs
attenuated vaccines
avian coccidiosis
axostyle

Babesia
- epidemiology
- life-cycle
- pathogenicity
babesiosis
Balantidium
basic concepts
- classification of parasites
  - nomenclature
- control of parasites
  - alternative technologies
  - ectoparasiticides
  - integrated parasite management (IPM)
  - vaccination
- diagnostic techniques
  - direct detection methods
  - indirect detection methods
  - limitations
- host defences
- host–parasite balance
- host–parasite interactions
- host–parasite relationships
- parasite evasion of host immunity
- parasitism
  - commensalism
  - definition
  - parasitoidism
  - symbiosis
- pathogenic mechanisms
- treatment for parasitic disease
  - chemotherapy
  - ectoparasiticides
  - resistance to parasiticides
basis capituli
Baylisacaris
bed bugs
bee-hive mite
benzimidazoles (BZDs)
- activity
- general spectrum
- mode of action
- pharmacokinetics
Besnoitia
binary fission
biological control of parasites
biotic potential
birds
- avian coccidiosis
- cryptosporidiosis
- mite infestations
biting muscids
blackbottle flies
blackflies
blowflies
- calliphorine myiasis
- larva (maggot)
- strike
blown
blue tick
bluebottle flies
bont tick
Boophilus
Borrelia
borreliosis (Lyme disease)
bottlejaw
Bovicola
bovine besnoitiosis
bovine fasciolosis
bovine neosporosis
bovine paramphistomosis
bovine parasitic bronchitis
bovine parasitic gastroenteritis (PGE)
bovine toxocarosis
Brachycera
breeding for resistance/resilience
bronchitis
brown dog tick
brown ear tick
budding
bugs (Hemiptera)
- assassin bugs
- bed bugs
- compared with fleas (Siphonaptera)
Bunostomum
bursa

Calliphora
calliphorine myiasis
Capillaria
carbamates
carbaryl
castor bean tick
cats
- Cheyletiella
- ear mites
- fleas
- heartworm disease (HWD)
- lice
- lungworm
- mite infestations
- parasitic genera
- tapeworms
  - diagnosis
- trematodes
cattle
- babesiosis
- bovine besnoitiosis
- bovine neosporosis
- bovine trichomonosis
- bronchitis
- fasciolosis
- lice
- mite infestations
- nasal myiasis
- neosporosis
- paramphistomosis
- parasitic bronchitis
- parasitic gastroenteritis (PGE)
- parasitic genera
- protozoan infections
- schistosomosis
- tapeworms
- theileriosis
- ticks
- toxocarosis
- trypanosomosis
- warble flies
Ceratophyllus
cestocidal drugs
- praziquantel
cestodes
Chabertia
Chagas disease
chelicerae
chemokines
chemotherapy
- formulation
- selective toxicity
- terminology
Cheyletiella
- infestation range
chigger mites
chitin inhibitors
Chorioptes
- infestation range
chorioptic mange
chronic toxicity
Chrysomia
Chrysops
ciliates
Cimex
classification of parasites
- nomenclature
clean grazing
climate change
closantel
Cnemidocoptes see Knemidocoptes
coccidia
- characteristics
- diagnosis of coccidial infection
- Eimeria
- Isospora
coccidia, tissue cyst-forming
- Besnoitia
- Neospora
- Sarcocystis
- Toxoplasma
coccidiosis
- avian
- mammalian
- pigs
- poultry
- sheep
Cochliomyia
coenurus
collateral circulation
combination products
commensalism
complement
complement fixation test (CFT)
contact poisons
control of parasites
- alternative technologies
  - biological control
  - breeding for resistance/resilience
  - delaying parasite resistance
  - enhancing host resistance
  - nutrition
- integrated parasite management (IPM)
- vaccination
  - attenuated vaccines
  - hidden antigen vaccines
  - natural antigen vaccines
Cooperia
coprophagic
coproscopy
covert toxocarosis
cranial mesenteric artery
cross-resistance
Cryptosporidium
Ctenocephalides
Culex
Culicoides
cutaneous larva migrans
cutaneous myiasis
Cyathostominae
- epidemiology
- larval stages
cyclophyllidean tapeworms
- diagnosis
- Echinococcus
- life-cycle
- metacestodes
- other tapeworms
  - Anoplocephala
  - Dipylidium
  - Moniezia
- Taenia
Cyclorrhapha
cyclozoonoses
cysticercus
cytokines

Davainea
definitive host
demodectic mange
Demodex
depsipeptides
Dermacentor
Dermanyssus
- infestation range
destrobilation
diagnostic techniques
- direct detection methods
  - flotation
  - migration
  - sedimentation
- indirect detection methods
  - complement fixation test (CFT)
  - DNA techniques
  - enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
  - immunological assays
  - indirect fluorescence antibody test (IFAT)
  - Western blotting
- limitations
  - sensitivity
  - specificity
diazinon
Dicrocoelium
Dictyocaulus
- epidemiology
- life-cycle
- pathogenesis
- reinfection syndrome
Dioctophyma
Diphyllobothrium
Diptera 26. See also flies
Dipylidium
direct (homoxenous) life-cycles
direct zoonoses
Dirofilaria
- acute prepatent disease
- chronic disease
- D. immitis
- hosts
- life-cycle
- post caval syndrome
dirofilarial haemoglobinuria
DNA diagnostic techniques
dogs
- angiostrongylosis
- babesiosis
- Cheyletiella
- chronic canine heartworm disease
- ear mites
- Echinococcus diagnosis
- fleas
- heartworm disease (HWD)
- hookworms
- integument
- leishmaniosis
- lice
- lungworm
  - diagnosis
- mange
- mite infestations
- neosporosis
- parasitic genera
- pediculosis
- Rangella
- spirocercosis
- tapeworms
  - diagnosis
- Thelazia
- Toxocara canis
  - older dogs
- toxocarosis
- Toxoplasma
- trematodes
- whipworms
dourine
Draschia

ear mite
East Coast Fever
Echidnophaga
Echinococcus
- alveolar hydatid disease
- dog–horse strain
- epidemiology
- hydatid disease
- life-cycle
- metacestodes
ectoparasites
ectoparasiticides
- basic concepts
  - modes of action
  - special properties
  - surface diffusion
  - transcutaneous
- important examples
  - amitraz
  - carbamates
  - indoxacarb
  - inert inorganic insecticides
  - macrocyclic lactones (MLs)
  - metaflumizone
  - neonicotinoids
  - organophosphates (OPs)
  - phenylpyrazoles
  - spinosyns
  - synthetic pyrethroids (SPs)
- insect growth regulators (IGRs)
- problems associated with use
efficacy
Eimeria
- epidemiology
- histopathology
- life-cycle
- pathogenicity see also coccidiosis
Elaeophora
embolus
endectocide
endemic
endoparasites
enhancing host resistance
Entamoeba
entomology, veterinary
environmental contamination
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
eosinophilia
epidemiology
erythema
erythropoiesis
eukaryote
exoskeleton
extracellular parasites