Parasitic Diseases of Blood and Urogenital and Intestinal Tracts

Question 1

What rate of mortality and morbidity is associated with parasitic diseases?
Are there vaccines for parasitic diseases?

Answer 1

low, no

Question 2

Ecto v. endoparasite

Answer 2

Ectoparasite is one which lives on the outside of the host

Endoparasite is one which lives within the body of the host

Question 3

Direct lifecycle v. indirect lifecycle

Answer 3

Direct - only humans are the host, infective stage passed out of body and infects another healthy person

Indirect - multiple hosts or involvement of vector

Question 4

What are the two major categories of parasites?

Answer 4

Parasitic Protoza - unicellular

Parasitic Helminths - multicellular