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AJTMH publishes a broad range of papers covering topics in tropical medicine. Their archive is open-access after a 12-month embargo.

Open-access scientific journal of the Polskie Towarzystwo Parazytologiczne/Polish Parasitological Society, formerly

Open-access journal of the European Food Safety Authority with yearly reports of food-borne outbreaks and cases of zoonotic agents and antibiotic resistance emergence in humans and animals.

The CDC open-access journal.

Open-access scientific journal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences that publishes quarterly since 1959. Open access from volume 43 (2006) - present. Articles relate to human, veterinary and plant helminthology.

Open-access (2013 - present) scientific journal of The Eyptian Society of Parasitology. Published since the 1970s, their archive is indexed in Pub-Med since 1972 (Index Medicus ISSN: 0253-5890).

The CDC-curated arbovirus information including dates of first isolation and wildlife hosts.

A collective management database for museum specimens. See below for specific collections. Data includes locality and collection dates, and is downloadable for any registered accounts.

Extensive database with 8,510 host species associations of parasites with complex life cycles (acanthocephalans, cestodes, and nematodes). Includes life‐history data such as development time and body size for each life cycle stage of the parasites.

A database that pulls organism associations from NCBI sequences and PubMed. See database and brief analysis in

A species interaction repository that can be searched by 'parasite of', 'pathogen of', or 'host of'.

A database of the parasites of wild ungulates (artiodactyls and perissodactyls), carnivores, and primates.

scientific institution with the largest

Collection of mammalian ecto- and endo- parasites primarily focused on the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions of the United States. Accessible through

Specimen collection focused "on the helminth parasites of mammals of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions stressing studies of the phylogeny and diversity of parasites of Rodentia, Marsupialia, Xenarthra, and Chiroptera." The archive site for the

Swedish Museum with collection of >10,000 flatworms, >2,000 nematodes, and select other parasite groups. Accessible through

Previously the Medical Zoology Collection, a portion of this collection includs endo- and ecto-parasites of medical and veterinary importance. Accessible through

Museum in Tokyo, Japan focused on human parasites with over 60,000 specimens. Data is not digitized, though the museum's founder, Dr. S. Yamaguti, described many of the specimens in 10 volumes of

A web platform maintained by FAO that provides geolocated data on animal diseases such as rabies, foot-and-mouth disease, or MERS coronavirus. This is a tracking service in which countries and veterinarians can opt-in to reporting.

A web platform that provides infectious disease outbreak alerts for humans and animals.

A web platform that provides human foodborne, waterborne, and other enteric infectious disease outbreaks for the United States. Available from 1971.

An early warning of outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging diseases. Sources of information include media reports, official reports, online summaries, local observers, and others.

An interactive map of human bloodborne or foodborne outbreaks in the past two years. Targeted to practitioners and clinicians.

Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership event reporting system managed by USGS National Wildlife Health Center. Events of North American wildlife mortality (death) and morbidity (illness) involving five or more individuals are reported.

This is a UK collaborative project between the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Froglife and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) that historically has been running since the 1980's (previously as Garden Bird Health initiative and Frog Mortality Project). Citizens can submit sickness and mortality reports, as well as animal wildlife samples, for wild birds, amphibians, reptiles, and hedgehogs.

A citizen science project running since 2006 to test adult monarch butterflies from the U.S. and Canada for the protozoan parasite

Aggregation and synonymization of taxonomy for animals, bacteria, protozoa, and viruses that synthesizes 56 taxonomy sources.

The viral taxonomy authority with excellent archives and

Online database that provides taxonomic information for wild hosts. You can use the R package

Mammal taxonomic authority maintained by American Society of Mammalogists. Versions are updated and recorded on Zenodo. Full desrciption by

The Taxonomy Database is a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases, both parasites and hosts.