Protozoan Diseases

Microbio Disease List

malaria

Signs/Symptoms: high fever, anemia, fatigue, jaundice, in cycles
Organism: Anopheles mosquito
Treatment/Prevention: Chloroquine for resistance
Transmission: Vector being a mosquito

toxoplasma gondii

Signs/Symptoms: no symptoms only if poor immunity
Organism: toxoplasma gondii
Treatment/Prevention: antiprotozoan medication
Transmission: feces from cats to soil to plants to animals to humans eating undercooked food

trypansoma

Signs/Symptoms: swelling on bite, lymph nodes swelled up, and fever
Organism: Trypansoma cruzi
Treatment/Prevention: only treatable in 1st stages
Transmission: opposums and armadillos and through vector kissing bug

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