Sarcomastigophora

See also:

• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Infectious Diseases: Parasitic: African Trypanosomiasis  (6)
• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Infectious Diseases: Parasitic: Chagas Disease  (8)
• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Infectious Diseases: Parasitic: Giardiasis  (11)
• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Infectious Diseases: Parasitic: Leishmaniasis  (23)
• Science: Biology: Microbiology: Parasitology  (17)

Actinophrys - - Photographic study by Chitchai Chantangsi of this member of the Heliozoa, or sun animalcules.

Amebiasis - - Information on Entamoeba histolytica which is a human pathogen, with diagrams and information on its life cycle.

Amoeba - - Article from Wikipedia on this single-celled organism, its habitat, anatomy and reaction to outside stimuli such as changes in salinity.

Amoebas are More than Just Blobs - - Article by Wim van Egmond on the humble Amoeba, how to find and identify it, its behavior, locomotion and feeding, with many fine photographs.

Giardia lamblia - - Information on this flagellate, which is found world wide, and its morphology, with images of different life stages. Also the clinical symptoms of giardiasis and its diagnosis.

Giardia lamblia - - Information on this parasite which may cause diarrhoea in humans.

Giardia lamblia - - Information from Wikipedia on this protozoan parasite that inhabits the gut, its life cycle, how the infection manifests itself and how it can be prevented and treated.

Giardiasis - - Information on Giardia intestinalis (or Giardia lamblia) which is a human pathogen, and diagrams and information on the life cycle of this protozoan flagellate.

An Interesting Amoeba: Naegleria - - Photograph and information on this pathogenic species.

Life Cycle of a Giardia lamblia - - Short video showing how this parasite develops after it has been ingested.

Mastigophora: Flagellates that Move with a Whip - - Illustrations and information on about ten of these protists which include Chlamydomonas, Volvox and Euglena.

Naegleria - - Information on these pathogenic free-living amoebae, with several videos from the Microbiology Video Library.

Protist Images: Mastigophora - - Provides a classification of these flagellates with images of a number of individual species. English and Japanese.

Sarcodina: Move with pseudopodia - - Illustrations and information on several species including amoeba, with microscopic images of many of them.

Sun Animalcules and Amoebas - - Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with several excellent photographs.

Testate Amoebae, Peat Bogs and Past Climates - - Photographic article by Graeme Swindles on the testate amoeba fossils to be found in core samples of peat, and the deductions that can be made about the climate.

Trichomonads - - Tutorial providing information on these parasites, their taxonomy, and the diseases caused by them that affect domestic animals and humans.

Trichomonas vaginalis - - Information on this flagellated protozoan parasite and the infection it causes, with a video from the Microbiology Video Library.

Trichomonas vaginalis - - Photomicrographs of this organism.

Voracious Soil Amoebae - - Image gallery of amoebae with large appetites, enveloping algae and other prey larger than themselves.