DISEASE OR CONDITION
INFECTIOUS AGENT
AMEBAE
Amebic dysentery (amebiasis)
Entamoeba histolytica
CILIATES
Balantidium coli
Bloody dysentery similar to amebiasis
FLAGELLATES
Giardia lamblia
Diarrhea, malabsorption
Trichomonas vaginalis
Inflammatory changes in the vagina
(vaginitis)
Trypanosoma brucei
Trypanosoma Modesiemse
African sleeping sickness.
gambiense
Trypanosoma. cruzi
Chagas' disease (American trypanosomiasis),
a systemic infection resulting in spleen and
liver enlargement and myocardial damage.
Leishmania donovani
Kala-azar (tropical splenomegaly), a disease
characterized by fever, disturbances in the
blood-forming organs, and enlargement of
spleen and liver.
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (tropical sore)
Leishmania tropica
American leishmaniasis (mucocutaneous'
Leishmania braziliensis
leishmaniasis or espundia), ulcerative
necrosis of nose, mouth, and pharynx.
SPOROZOA
Vivax (benign tertian) malaria.
Plasmodium vivax
Quartan malaria.
Plasmodium malariae
Falciparum (aestivo-autumnal or malignant
Plasmodium alciparum
tertian) malaria.
Ovale malaria (rare)
Plasmodium ovale
.
Table 2-7.
Principal protozoan diseases of man.
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