[PARA] MODE OF INFECTION

Contaminated food and drinks

Giant intestinal roundworm

Autoinfection, airborne, contaminated food and drinks

Pinworm

Autoinfection, ingestion

Whipworm

Skin penetration

Hookworm and Threadworm

Ingestion of encysted larva in pig's muscle

Trichina worm

Ingestion of raw or insufficiently cooked infected freshwater fish

Pudoc worm

Bite of infected mosquito

Filarial worm

Ingestion of contaminated water plant

Sheep liver fluke and Giant liver fluke

Ingestion of infected fish

Chinese liver fluke

Ingested of contaminated water chestnut

Giant intestinal fluke

Ingestion of infected snail

Garrison's fluke

Ingestion of infected fish

VonSiebold's fluke

Ingestion of infected crab

Oriental lung fluke

Ingestion of infected snail

blood fluke

Ingestion of infected freshwater fish

Fish tapeworm

Ingestion of partially cooked infected pork

Pork tapeworm

Ingestion of partially cooked infected beef

Beef tapeworm

Ingestion of contaminated food and drinks

Dwarf tapeworm

Accidental ingestion of infected rat flea

Rat tapeworm

Accidental ingestion of infected flea

Double pored tapeworm

Ingestion of contaminated food and drinks

Hydatid worm

Fecal contamination; night soil; droppings of lice; unsanitary food handling

Entamoeba histolytica

Ingestion of contaminated food and drinks

Giargia lamblia

Sexual contact

Trichomonas vaginalis

Congenital & External Source

Toxoplasma gondii

Bite of sandfly

Leishmania donovani

Bite of kissing bug

Trypanosoma cruzi

Bite of tse-tse fly

Tryapnosoma gambiense/ rhodesiens

Bite of infected Anopheles spp. mosquito

Plasmodium spp.