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Amebiasis - http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Amebiasis.htm
Information on Entamoeba histolytica which is a human pathogen, with diagrams and information on its life cycle. |
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Giardiasis - http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Giardiasis.htm
Information on Giardia intestinalis (or Giardia lamblia) which is a human pathogen, and diagrams and information on the life cycle of this protozoan flagellate. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba
Article from Wikipedia on this single-celled organism, its habitat, anatomy and reaction to outside stimuli such as changes in salinity. |
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Giardia lamblia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. |
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Protist Images: Mastigophora - http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/MastigophoraE.html
Provides a classification of these flagellates with images of a number of individual species. English and Japanese. |
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Sun Animalcules and Amoebas - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/sundr.html
Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with several excellent photographs. |
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Amoebas are More than Just Blobs - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep01/amoeba.html
Article by Wim van Egmond on the humble Amoeba, how to find and identify it, its behavior, locomotion and feeding, with many fine photographs. |
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Sarcodina: Move with pseudopodia - http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/sarcodina/sarcodina.htm
Illustrations and information on several species including amoeba, with microscopic images of many of them. |
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Mastigophora: Flagellates that Move with a Whip - http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/mastigophora/mastigophora.htm
Illustrations and information on about ten of these protists which include Chlamydomonas, Volvox and Euglena. |
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Trichomonas vaginalis - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Trichomonas.html
Information on this flagellated protozoan parasite and the infection it causes, with a video from the Microbiology Video Library. |
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Naegleria - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Naegleria.html
Information on these pathogenic free-living amoebae, with several videos from the Microbiology Video Library. |
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Trichomonads - http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/d.p.humber/trichtut.htm
Tutorial providing information on these parasites, their taxonomy, and the diseases caused by them that affect domestic animals and humans. |
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Trichomonas vaginalis - http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/strous_mary
Research project by Mary Strous at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. |
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An Interesting Amoeba: Naegleria - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec01/mmamoeba.html
Photograph and information on this pathogenic species. |
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Testate Amoebae, Peat Bogs and Past Climates - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun03/gsamoebae.html
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. |
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Actinophrys - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb02/ccactino.html
Photographic study by Chitchai Chantangsi of this member of the Heliozoa, or sun animalcules. |
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Voracious Soil Amoebae - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb05/pjvoraceou.html
Image gallery of amoebae with large appetites, enveloping algae and other prey larger than themselves. |
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Giardia lamblia - http://www.btinternet.com/~ukneqas.parasitologyscheme/Faecal_Scheme/Teaching_Information/Protozoa/Flagellates/Giardia_lamblia/giardia_lamblia.html
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. |
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Trichomonas vaginalis - http://www.pharmacology2000.com/Chemotherapy/Antibacterial/tricho1.htm
Photomicrographs of this organism. |
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Giardia lamblia - http://www.ashtree.co.uk/features/Giardia.htm
Information on this parasite which may cause diarrhoea in humans. |