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- Bibliography – a list of resources used for this section
- Amoebas – one-celled animals that affect the body
- Blastocystis Hominis – the cause of blastocystis, which infects the region where the small intestine meets the colon
- Cryptosporidium – a protozoan that causes the disease known as cryptosporidiosis, a type of diarrhea that plagues both humans and animals
- Giardia Lamblia – a protozoan flagellate that causes the disease giardiasis
- Introduction – an overview of protozoa
- Leishmania – an organism transmitted by blood-sucking sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus, infecting the blood cells
- Malaria – the best known protozoal disease, caused by a species of a sporazoa which inhabits certain types of mosquitoes
- Pfiesteria Piscicida – a marine protozoan that is the suspected cause of a phenomena known as “red tide”
- Pneumocystis Carinii – an unclassified protozoa emerging as a distinct pathogen for the immunocompromised
- Toxoplasma Gondii – a protozoan that causes a disease known as toxoplasmosis
- Trichomonas Vaginalis – a protozoan that colonizes in the endocervical region, urethral glands, or in the prostate
- Trypanosomiasis – a type of protozoal infection that causes South American sleeping sickness, or Chagas’ disease
