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=== Range ===
[[File:Mitochondria, mammalian lung - TEM.jpg|thumb|Among the many types of fictional parasite are the [[mitochondria]] of ''[[Parasite Eve (novel)|Parasite Eve]]''; these are energy-generating organelles in animal cells, imagined as parasitic.]]
The range of accounts of fictional parasites and the media used to describe them have greatly increased since the nineteenth century, spanning among other things literary novels, science fiction novels and films, [[horror film]]s, and [[video game]]s.<ref name=Jajszczok2017 /><ref name=Glassy2005 /><ref name=Williams1997 /><ref name=Loguidice2014 /> The table illustrates the variety of themes and approaches that have become possible.
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| {{unbulleted list|[[Satoru Okada]]|[[Gunpei Yokoi]]|[[Hiroji Kiyotake]]|[[Yoshio Sakamoto]]}} || ''[[Metroid (series)|Metroid]]'' || [[Video game]] || 1986 || [[X Parasite]] || Deadly [[infection]]; confers useful energy and powers to vaccinated people || [[Pathogen]]s such as [[bacteria]], [[virus]]es; [[vaccine]]s<ref name=Loguidice2014>{{cite book |last1=Loguidice |first1=Bill |author2=Matt Barton |title=Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZnpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA191 |year=2014 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-135-00651-8 |page=191}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/wiiu-eshop/metroid_fusion_gba |title=SA-Xcellent |last=Hughes |first=Rob |date=3 April 2014 |website=IGN |accessdate=June 13, 2014 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817013911/http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/wiiu-eshop/metroid_fusion_gba |archivedate=August 17, 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Hideaki Sena]] (pharmacologist) || ''[[Parasite Eve (novel)|Parasite Eve]]'' || [[Science fiction]] [[horror novel]] || 1995 || Mitochondria cut free from mutualism in human cells || Deadly parasitism || [[Mitochondria]], power-generating [[organelle]]s, formerly free-living [[prokaryotic]] organisms, became [[mutualism (biology)|mutualistic]] by [[symbiogenesis]] c. 2 billion years ago<ref name="Timmis2004">{{cite journal |title=Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes |journal=Nature Reviews Genetics |year=2004 |pages=123–135 |volume=5 |issue=2 |doi=10.1038/nrg1271 |first1=Jeremy N. |last1=Timmis |first2=Michael A. |last2=Ayliffe |first3=Chun Y. |last3=Huang |first4=William |last4=Martin |pmid=14735123}}</ref><ref name="Taanman1999">{{cite journal |last=Taanman |first=Jan-Willem |title=The mitochondrial genome: structure, transcription, translation and replication |journal=Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics |date=1999 |pages=103–123 |volume=1410 |issue=2 |doi=10.1016/S0005-2728(98)00161-3 |pmid=10076021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lynch |first1=Lisa |title=Tech Flesh 4: Mitochodrial Combustion at Club Parasite {{!}} An Interview With Hideaki Sena |url=http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=26 |publisher=Ctheory journal |accessdate=16 June 2018 |page=tf011 |date=5 September 2001}}</ref>
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| [[Irvine Welsh]] || ''[[Filth (novel)|Filth]]'' || [[Novel]] || 1998 || Talking tapeworm || Sinister, comic;<ref name="Ford2013" /> "the most attractive character in the novel"; becomes the [[sociopathic]] policeman's ''[[alter ego]]'' and better self.<ref name=MarrenMabey2010 /> || [[Tapeworm]]s, [[intestinal parasite]]s<ref name=MarrenMabey2010>{{cite book |author1=Marren, Peter |author2=Mabey, Richard |author2link=Richard Mabey |title=Bugs Britannica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ah62bUZLDOwC |year=2010 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |isbn=978-0-7011-8180-2 |pages=34–36}}</ref>
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