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| causes Amebiasis humans are primary hosts, spread by water contaminated with sewage to water crops |
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| Primary acute menigoencephalitis is caused by nasal contact with water or traumatic eye damage |
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| lives in intestine of sheep, pigs, cattle, horses |
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| causes Trichomoniasis, lives in urogenital tract |
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| Causes Giardiasis, usually ingested with h20 and food, causes sx of diaherra and abdominal pain |
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| causes African Sleeping sickness, spready by tsete flies |
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| causes Chagas disease, spread by Reduviid bug (kissing bug) |
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| Leishmania mexicana and Leishmania tropica |
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| casuses Leishamaniasis--zoonosis transmittted among mammalian hosts by female sand flies that require a blood meal to produce eggs |
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Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodim ovale
--causes chills fever, sweating, anemia, organ enlargement |
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| causes toxoplasmosis, lives in cats GI tract |
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| large intestinal roundworm, allergic reactions can occur, worms retain motitlity do not attach, sever inflammatory reactions mark migratory route |
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Whipworm infection worms can pierce capillaries, casued localized hemorrage and allow bacterial to leave intestine, heavy infestations can cause dysentery, rectal prolapse, and be fatal in children
The round worm is a worm that causes trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine. It is commonly known as the whipworm which refers to the shape of the worm; it looks like a whip with wider "handles" at the posterior end. Wikipedia
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Scientific name: Trichuris trichiura
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| Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale |
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| Hookworm infection, may cause pnemonia, N/V cramps and bloody diarrhea, blood loss is significant--anemia |
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| Heavy worm loads can cause pneumotits and eosinphilia, bloody diahrrea liver enlargement bowel obstruction and malabsorption |
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| Trchinosis, acquired by eating uncooked pork or bear meat |
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| causes chronic deforming disease |
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| elphantitis, tropical disease spread by mosquitos, causes massive swelling in extremitites |
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| river blindness, transmitted by black biting flies |
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| the African eye worm, spread by bite of small flies |
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| Beef tapeworm, causes vague abdn pain |
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| Pork tapeworm, psychiatric disturbances |
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