Another disease caused by a protozoan is malaria, and its vector is a mosquito belonging to genus anopheles. It is the infected female anopheles mosquito which transmits the disease by its bite.
Malaria is a protozoan infection characterized by paroxysms of chills, fever, and sweating, and by anemia, splenomegaly, and a chronic relapsing course.
A viral infection with Aedes mosquitoes as its vector. It is carried in the blood by a bite of a female Aedes mosquito and brings catastrophic damages to the human body, or in some cases may be mild and needs only symptomatic treatment.
Another group of diseases caused by a protozoan are the African sleeping sickness and Chagas’ disease.The protozoa identified in these diseases fall under the genus Trypanosoma. Trypanosoma brucei variety gambiense and rhodesiense produce African sleeping sickness, the Gambian and Rhodesian trypanosomiasis, while the Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas’ disease, responsible for South American trypanosomiasis, seen in […]
A zoonotic infection is a type of infection transmitted from a vertebral animal to man. Among the soonotic infections that is transmitted to man is Leptospirosis.
This is a group of parasitic diseases caused by a protozoa under genus Leishmania, and is transmitted by several phlebotomine sandflies. The manifestations may be visceral, mucocutaneous, and cutaneous, and strain of the infecting organism and the immunologic reaction of the hosts apparently can greatly modify the clinical manifestations.
Parasites are organisms that live in or on other living organisms and derive its nutriment from the host partly or wholly from it, and somehow exhibits a particular form of adaptation. Microorganisms are known to inhabit in human bodies, in the intestines, in orifices, and sometimes in blood and human organs like liver, brain, and […]
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis or LCM is an acute viral infection caused by an RNA virus classified as arenavirus, usually appearing as an influenza-like illness or aseptic meningitis, which may be associated with rash, arthritis, orchitis, or parotitis. This type of infection is endemic in rodents, and human infection results most commonly from exposure to dust or […]
