01:146:328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chagas Disease, Schistosomiasis, Binomial Nomenclature
20 May 2016
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Drastically shrinks fetus skull resulting is incurable small head of child. Two approaches to parasitology: governmental approach, anthropological approach. Books: manson"s tropical diseases (1898: first edition) British and european"s colonizing africa: lots and lots of journals. Public library of science in tropical diseases (online) Intermediate host/vectors: intermediate hosts: human beings, vectors: insects (mosquitos, ticks, etc. ) Symbiosis parasitism: phoresy (phoresis), also known as trophic: situation in which organisms travel together; Macro: larger parasite: exo and endo parasite: Exo: superficial/on the skin (ex: tick = acarology) Endo: deep/in the body (ex: gut/helminth = nematodology: facultative and obligate. Facultative: an organism that may resort to parasitic activity, but does not absolutely rely on any host for completion of its life cycle. Obligate: or holoparasite, is a parasitic organism that cannot complete its life- cycle without exploiting a suitable host: hyper parasite: a parasite living in/on another parasite, domestic vs. sylvatic (wild); related to reservoirs/zoonosis.
