INDG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Helminths, Yellow Fever, Scabies

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9 Jun 2018

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Lecture 18 : Diseases

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• No spec. questions related to them, just use as examples

Definitions :

• Parasite = organism that lives and draws resources from a host, to the detriment of the host

o Microparasites - virsues, bacteria, protozoa, fungi

o Macroparasites - worms (helminths) and arthropods

✓ Grooming removes parasites

• Disease – pathology of an infection

Transmission

• Close Contact : e.g. sexual vs non-sexual (grooming)

• Environmental : e.g. Ascaris

• Vector bone (e.g. malaria, zika, chaga - go through intermediate hosts)

• Intermediate Host (e.g. schistosomiasis)

Free-Living Primates compared to humans * CHART

• Helminths are more common in these than humans that are directly transmitted parasite since

we clean the food we eat before we ingest it

• We don't eat food usually from the ground or trees (processed)

• Protozoans are the same way - filtered water compared to free running water that have animal

poop in it

1. Primate – Human diseases

• Zoonotics

▪ Definition: Diseases transmitted from animals to humans

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