Parasites causing human diseases (malaria, dengue, chickengunia, filariasis, ascariasis, typhoid, pneumonia, common cold, amoebiasis, ring worm) and their control

VIRAL DISEASES OF HUMANS

• Influenza (flu) — orthoneyno virus — Influeza vaccine
• Common cold (Rhinitis) — Rhino virus — No vaccine
• Small fox (variola) — Variola Virus (eradicated) — Variola Vaccine (Edward Jenner)
• Chicken fox (Varicella) — Varicella zoster virus — Varicella Vaccine
• Mumps (infections parotiditis) — paramyxovirus — MMR vaccine
• Measles (Rubeola disease) — Rubeola virus — MMR vaccine
• Rubella (German measles) — Rubella virus — MMR vaccine (should not be given to pregnant ladies)
• Poliomyelitis (Polio) — Entero virus (Polio V) (Via oral) — Salk vaccine (injectable) sabin Vaccine (oral)
• Rabies (Hydrophobia) sep - 29 (world rabies day) — Rabies V (via dog, cat, wolver, jackals) — Rabies vaccine
• Dengue - fever (Break - bone fever) — Flavi - ribo - virus (via Aedes aegypti) — No vaccine
• Chikungunya — Chikungunya virus — No vaccine
• Yellow Fever — Flavivirus (bite of Aedes aegypti) — No vaccine
• SARS - Severe acute Respirabry syndrome — Corona virus — Diagnosis -PCR
• Genital Herpes — Herpes simplex virus — through sexual contact
• Genital warts — Human papilloma virus — through sexual contact
• Viral Hepatitis (Jaundice) — Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E

BACTERIAL DISEASES OF HUMANS

• Cholera — Vibrio Cholerae — Cholera Vaccine
• Typhoid (Enteric fever) — Salmonella typhi — Diagnosis - widal test (Typhoid vaccine)
• Diphtheria — Corynebacterium diphtheria — DPT vaccine (Diagnosis - schick test)
• Whooping cough (Pertussis) — Bordetella pertussis — DPT vaccine (Diagnosis - schick test)
• Tetanus (lock jaw) — Clostridium tetani — DPT vaccine (Diagnosis - Shick test)
• Tuberculosis (TB) (kochi disease) — Mycobacterium tuberculosis — BCG vaccine
• Leprosy (Hansen's disease) — Mycobacterium leprae — No vaccine (Lepromin Skin Test diagnosis)
• Bacillary dysentery (shigellosis) — shigellosis dysenteriae — No Vaccine
• Anthrax (intestinal) (Cutaneous) (Pulmonary) — Bacillus anthracis — Anthrax vaccine
• Pneumonia — Streptococcus pneumoniae — No vaccine
• Bubonic Plague (Black death) — Yersinia Pestis — Anti-plague vaccine (Diagnosis - wayson stain test)
• Gonorrhea — Neisseria gonorrhoeae (STD) (Sexually Transmitted Disease) — No vaccine Diagnosis - CFT (Compliment Fixation Test)
• Botulism (Food Poisoning) — Clostridium botulinum — No vaccine Diagnosis - CFT (Compliment Fixation Test)
• Chancroid — Haemophilus dueregi (STD)
• Scarlet Fever — Streptococcus Pyogenes — (Diagnosis - Dick Test) No Vaccine

SPIROCHAETAE DISEASE

• Syphilis — Treponema pallidum (STD) — Diagnosis (VDRL Test)
  1) Primary
  2) Secondary
  3) Latent
  4) Tertiary

PROTOZOAL DISEASE

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• Giardiasis (Diarrhoea) (discovery - Leeuwenhoek) — Giardia intestinalis
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  Anti molarial drugs : Quinine ; Paludrine ; Primaguin ; Chloroguinine ; Comoguin ; Comoprima.
  [Infective stage of Plasmodium: sporozoite]
• Leishmaniasis / Kala - azar / Dum - Dum Fever — Phlebotomus argentipes (sandfly) - Vector Leishmania donovani - pathogen
• Trichomoniasis / Vaginitis / Leucorrhea — Trichomonas vaginalis (STD)
• Balantidiasis (Balantidium Coli) (Enz - hyaluronidase)

Other diseases

• Ascariasis — Ascaris lumbricoides (Giant intestinal round worm)
• Loiosis (Eye worm disease) — Loa Loa (eye worm) → Conjunctivitis
• Filariasis (Elephantiasis) — (wuchereria bancrofti) (Via Culex mosquito) (Filarial worm)

FUNGAL DISEASES

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• Aspergillosis — Aspergillus niger A. fumigatus — air borne
• Candidiasis (opportunistic) — Candida albicans — Direct contact / Endogenous infection.