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With the tremendous increase in the number of patients whose immune systems are compromised through underlying illness, chemotherapy, transplantation, AIDS, or age, we are much more likely to see increasing numbers of opportunistic infections, including those caused by parasites. Also, we continue to discover and document organisms that were thought to be nonpathogenic but, when found in the compromised host, can cause serious disease. In assessing the possible cause of illness in this patient population, the possibility of parasitic infections must be considered as part of the differential diagnosis.