MIMM 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Tsetse Fly, Reduviidae, Chagas Disease
14 Nov 2016
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Most dangerous animal i the world: mosquito, malaria/plasmodium, yellow fever, dengue, west nile virus, humans (we"re just shitty, dogs (rabies, parasite disease transmitters (helminth and protozoan), tsetse fly, assassin bug/triatomine, snails, sandfly: Protozoan parasite disease burden aka how many years of life lost by this disease. Malaria: plasmodium: parasite that causes malaria, distribution: mostly africa, some south america + south asia. They are bumpy, have darker stained ring cells within (cid:1) bumpy bc surface proteins (cid:2) rbc stick to each other (cid:2) clotting of vessels (cid:2) some parts of body become deprived of oxygen, acidosis (cid:2) cerebral malaria! Trypanosome = corkscrew shape of the trypomastigote: t. cruzi in south america vs t. brucei in south africa, evolved 200mil years ago, when south america was the same landmass as south. Trypanosomiasis/sleeping sickness (2 variations of t. brucei, transmitted by tsetse fly: trypanosome brucei gambiense, west africa, only infect humans, trypanosome brucei rhodesiense, east africa, infect humans and cattle.
