01:146:328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leishmaniasis, Trachoma, Trichuriasis

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Cell Biology and Neuroscience
• Course: 01:146:328
• Professor: Professor Fong

Document Summary

Human parasitology (1/25/16) lecture 2: ntd"s and numbers. Send professor 5 questions about lectures by valentine"s days with answers. Ntd"s: list of diseases considered neglected (17) = 530,000 deaths per year estimated: buruli ulcer, chargas disease, dengue: viral, dracunculiasis: guineaworm disease. Jimmy carter contracted guineaworm diease; created a center: echinocococosis: hydatidcyst; tick worm from dogs or foxes to humans, food bourne trematodiasis: worms from crabs. Clonorchiasis, opisthorchiasis, and fascioliasis: human african trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness): carried in flies, leprosy: bacterial flesh eating disease, leishmaniasis (dr. hong"s favorite) = ~6000 genes, rabies: viral disease, soil transmitted helminthiasis: hook worms, round worms. Worm larvae pass through the feet from the soil. Trichiuriasis: taeniasis/cysticcerosis (tape worm, schistosomiasis, onchocereiasis (river blindness by black fly, trachoma: bacerial causing blindness, yaws (endemic treponematosis, lymphatic filariasis: elephantiasis. Data from gbd 2010, hotez 2013, who 2015, cdc and other sources.