Parasites, parasitic diseases and vectors
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Malaria and Anopheles mosquitoes
Malaria is a potentially fatal infectious disease caused by a number of a unicellular parasite species belonging to the Plasmodium genus. The parasite is transmitted to humans via bites from infected mosquitoes. Malaria mosquitoes belong to the Anopheles genus.https://phototheque.pasteur.fr/vignette/00000000006/37437.thu https://phototheque.pasteur.fr/vignette/00000000006/37437.thw -
Trypanosomiasis
African Trypanosomiasis, also known as "sleeping sickness," is caused by microscopic parasites of the species Trypanosoma brucei. It is transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina species).https://phototheque.pasteur.fr/vignette/00000000011/42122.thu https://phototheque.pasteur.fr/vignette/00000000011/42122.thw
Chagas disease (T. cruzi infection) is also referred to as American trypanosomiasis. -
Amebiasis
Amoebiasis is the third deadliest parasitic disease in the world. Around 10% of the world¿s population is thought to be infected by parasitic amebae from the Entamoeba genus, the most pathogenic being Entamoeba histolytica, the agent of amebiasis.https://phototheque.pasteur.fr/vignette/00000000000/24577.thu https://phototheque.pasteur.fr/vignette/00000000000/24577.thw