Table of Contents
Title page
Definitions and concepts
Definition of parasitism
Parasitic associations
What is parasitology
Different types of parasites
Mechanisms of infection
T
ypes 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
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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
Questions
Terms
Last updated: 27 November 2002.
created by :
Fred Opperdoes