01:146:328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lymphatic Filariasis, Toxoplasmosis, Leishmaniasis

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Cell Biology and Neuroscience
• Course: 01:146:328
• Professor: A.Keating

Document Summary

Parasites & human health: world health, leading causes of death in us (cdc, 2015) No parasites: leading causes of death in underdeveloped countries (who, 2015, malaria, more prevalent in different parts of the world. Other parts communicable diseases: united nations, millennium development goals, began in 2010, 8 goals: (can find on google, goal #6: (cid:498)big three(cid:499, hiv/aids. Bed nets for prevention: sdgs are more specific than mgds, mdgs halfway goals. Ex: 50 out of the 100 are not in poverty: sdgs zero goals. Protozoa: human african trypanosomiasis, (sleeping sickness, about 60 million at risk, chagas disease, about 25 million at risk, leishmaniasis, about 350 million at risk. Bacteria: buruli ulcer, mycobacterium ulcerans, produces mycolactone toxin that results in lesions and tissue death, can lead to long term disability and death, leprosy (hansen disease, mycobacterium leprae. Affects skin, peripheral nerves, mucosal surfaces of upper respiratory tract and eyes.