Table of Contents

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• Title page
• Definitions and concepts
  • Definition of parasitism
  • Parasitic associations
  • What is parasitology
  • Different types of parasites
  • Mechanisms of infection
  • Types of parasite 2
  • Types of host and vector
  • Parasite reservoirs
  • How do parasites survive inside an immunocompetent host ?
  • Harmful effects of the parasite on the host
  • Prophylaxis
• Trypanosomiases
  • The Kinetoplastida
  • Pathogenic trypanosomes
  • African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness
  • Trypanosomiasis and nutrition
    • The life cycle
    • Diagnosis and control
    • Tsetse traps
    • Drugs and treatment
    • Fact sheet on sleeping sickness in the soudan
  • American trypanosomiasis or Chagas' disease
    • Symptoms and Pathology
    • Immunity
    • Treatment
    • Chagas' press release
    • Interruption of transmission (press release)
    • Uruguay free of transmission
• Leishmaniasis
  • The manifestations of Leishmaniasis
  • Immunity
  • Parasite and host cell
  • Different manifestation of the disease
  • Treatment
  • survival of parasites in the macrophage
  • Oxygen defense mechanisms
  • Mode of action of anti-trypanosomatid drugs
  • Anti-leishmania vaccines
  • Leishmaniasis and AIDS
• Malaria
  • The four Plasmodium species
  • The Plasmodium life cycle
  • Immunity
  • Clinical manifestations
  • Vaccine development
  • Chemotherapy
    • Mode of action of chloroquine
    • Drug resistance
    • Novel drugs
      • Artesunate
      • Pyronaridine
  • Prophylaxis (frequently updated Australian website)
  • Plastids in the Apicomplexans
  • The WHO malaria fact sheet
  • Malaria and the downfall of the Roman empire
  • Visit an interesting website on malaria
• Babesiosis
  • Hosts and vectors
  • Life cycle
  • Cattle babesiosis
  • Human babesiosis
• Schistosomiasis
  • Distribution
  • Causative agent
  • Life cycle
  • Transmission
  • Symptoms and type of disease
  • Prevention and control
• Lymphatic filariasis
  • Distribution
  • Causative agent
  • Vector and transmission
  • The disease
  • Diagnosis
  • Prevention and control
• Onchocerciasis or river blindness
  • Distribution
  • Causative agent
  • Vector and transmission
  • The disease
  • Diagnosis
  • Prevention and control

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• Questions
• Terms