Neglected Tropical Diseases (lecture)

Question 1

What are the 6 pathogens/infectious agents?

Answer 1

Viruses, Bacteria, extoparasites, protozoa, fungi, helminths

Question 2

What are the three general routes of pathogen transmission?

Answer 2

Contact, vehicle, vector

Question 3

What is some examples of vehicle transmission?

Answer 3

Food-borne, water-borne, airborne droplets

Question 4

What are some examples of contact transmission?

Answer 4

Person-to-person, droplet (mucous), indirect contact

Question 5

how is the general transmission cycle between vector and host?

Answer 5

One of them is susceptible and gets infected by the other and then gets infected and can spread it on to the next

Question 6

how does an enzootonic transmission ususally work?

Answer 6

Vector gets infected by host and then infects a human

Question 7

How many are affected by NTDs?

Answer 7

More than one billion

Question 8

Why is the NTDs a part of a vicious cycle?

Answer 8

Poverty conditions create risk for exposure and the diseases themselves create a risk of being poor

Question 9

What are the five main intervention strategies for NTDs?

Answer 9

Vector control, preventive chemotherapy, WASH, veterinary public health, individual case management