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. -
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).
Chagas disease (T. cruzi infection) is also referred to as American trypanosomiasis. -
Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis is caused by the protozoan Leishmania parasites which are transmitted by the bite of infected female phlebotomine sandflies. -
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. -
Schistosomiasis
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Filariasis
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Other parasites and parasitosis