Medical parasitology taxonomy update, January 2018 to May 2020

Blaine A. Mathison; Richard S. Bradbury; Bobbi S. Pritt

doi:10.1128/JCM.01308-20

Medical parasitology taxonomy update, January 2018 to May 2020

Blaine A. Mathison, Richard S. Bradbury, Bobbi S. Pritt

Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

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Abstract

The taxonomy of parasites of medical and public health importance is rapidly evolving. This minireview provides an update of taxonomic revisions and additions in the field of medical parasitology from January 2018 to May 2020. Several established human parasites have been reassigned to different genera over the past 2 years, while a number of novel parasites of humans have been identified. A comprehensive summary of these changes is provided here, and Taenia suihominis is proposed as a replacement name for Taenia asiaticus Eom et al., which is a homonym of Taenia asiatica von Linstow.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e01308-20
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	59
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01308-20
State	Published - Feb 2021

Keywords

Arthropods
Cestodes
Nematodes
Parasite
Protozoans
Taxonomy

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Microbiology (medical)

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