Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/External parasites and parasitic diseases
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[edit] Stand alone veterinary medicine articles
- Bird louse - stub
- Cat flea
- Cheyletiellosis - Disease in cats, dogs, and rabbits.
- Dermanyssus gallinae - AKA feather mite, chicken mite, Red mite, Roost mite, Poultry mite.
- Ear mite - Includes disease in dogs, cats, and rabbits.
- Gyrodactylus salaris - Disease in salmon. Stub.
- Mange - Including:
- Demodectic mange - Includes disease in dogs and cats, missing info on horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, seals, gerbils,and hamsters.
- Sarcoptic mange - Includes disease in dogs, missing info on horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, pot-bellied pigs, and guinea pigs.
- Scaly leg - Disease in birds, caused by Knemidocoptes mutans. Stub.
- Sea louse - Disease in fish.
- Trichobilharzia regenti - Nasal parasite in birds. Substub.
[edit] Other articles which contain veterinary medicine information
[edit] Important missing articles
These may link to existing articles, just no vet med info present.
- Chirodiscoides caviae - AKA fur mite, disease in guinea pigs.
- Dog flea
- Lice - Disease in various species.
- Mange - Including:
- Chorioptic mange - AKA leg mange, disease in cattle, sheep, goats, and horses.
- Notoedric mange - AKA feline scabies, disease in cats.
- Psorergatic mange - AKA itch mite, disease in cattle and sheep.
- Psoroptic mange - AKA sheep scab, disease in cattle, sheep, and horses.
- Pneumonyssoides caninum - AKA nasal mite, disease in dogs.
- Sticktight flea - Echidnophaga gallinacea, disease in poultry.
- Tick - Could be interesting to have an article on common tick species known to affect domestic species, and also a section on which species carry which diseases.
