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WEB WATCHER Medical Entomology and Parasitology by Kathleen Crea, MLS, 6th Year, AHIP Information & Education Services Librarian

Research on public health could be viewed as the study of how humans co-exist (or not) in a world filled with a vast array of hostile bugs, pests and germs. Better computing technologies has allowed the wired user to view online digital images or real-time videos of non-human organisms which a decade ago would have been unimaginable (or labeled as futuristic science fiction). Below are listed some of the best free websites concerned with "bugs' lives"... and their effects on human health.

·Entomology Index of Internet Resources http://www.ent.iastate.edu/List/

· Parasites & Parasitological Info (Ohio State) http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/home.html

· Featured Creatures (Univ. of Florida) http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/

· Karolinska Institute: Parasitic Diseases http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/C03.html

· Systematic Entomology Laboratory (USDA) http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/selhome/selhome.htm

· CDC - DPDx http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/
o DPDX-Parasite Image Library http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/HTML/Image_Library.htm
o CDC Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/index.htm

· FDA's Bad Bug Book http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

· Korkmaz's Clinical Parasitology Resource Page http://bornova.ege.edu.tr/~mkorkmaz/linkmk3.htm
o Parasitology Images Page http://bornova.ege.edu.tr/~mkorkmaz/images.htm

· WWW Virtual Library: Parasitology http://www.diplectanum.dsl.pipex.com/purls/

· Parasite Groups http://www.diplectanum.dsl.pipex.com/purls/parasite.htm

· Biology Browser (BIOSIS) http://www.biologybrowser.org/
o Subject Page http://www.biologybrowser.org/bb/Subject/index.shtml

· All the Virology on the Web http://www.virology.net/garryfavweb.html

· Atlas of Medical Parasitology http://www.cdfound.to.it/html/site_map.htm

· BugBios: Insects on the Web http://www.insects.org/index.html

· Parasites Index from Cells Alive http://www.cellsalive.com/parasit.htm

· The Virtual Library: Bioscience http://vlib.org/Biosciences.html

· McGill: World of Parasites Map http://martin.parasitology.mcgill.ca/JIMSPAGE/WORLDOF.HTM

· NCBI Taxomony Resources http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/

Thanks to Dr. Stephen Wikel, Director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at UCHC, for suggestions for this article.