01:146:328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amastigote, Carl Woese, Cryptosporidium

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

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1/25/16: main topics, ntds (17, daly disability adjusted life year, gbd- global burden of disease, genomes vs evoluion, treatments and bioethics. Look at the notes from notebook as well. Worms are also called nemotodes: nemotodology. Carl lineas made the classiicaion of parasites: named some animals himself. Prevalence- how common is the infecion agent or parasite. Ntd- concentraion on the botom populaion, poor people. What the professor studies in his lab(original tdr diseases: malaria, leprosy, schistosomiasis-snails disease, leishmaniasis-intralysosomal parasite. Carried by lies: onchocerciasis, lyphaic ilariasis-elephaniasis-ilaria worm, chaqas disease-american trypanosopiasis, human african trypanosopiasis, added later: major ntds. Ascariasis: 800-900 million afected, 2,700 die a year, chronic, 4. 2 billion at risk, cosmopolitan. Hookworm: 600mil prevalence, 65000 die a year, 3. 2 b at risk, cosmopolitan. Trichiariasis: 500-600 mil afected, 10000 die a year, 3. 2 billion at risk, cosmopolitan. Lf: 200-600 million, 11,200 die a year, 779 million at risk, ssa, 120 million, 20 million die, na, india, ssa, easia, par.