Human Health and Disease Test - 6

Balantidiasis is a protozoan infection caused by infection with Balantidium coli.
Malaria parasites belong to the genus Plasmodium (protozoan).
Kala-azar (Leishmaniasis) is caused by Leishmania donovani (protozoan).
Giardiasis is caused by microscopic protozoan parasites known as Giardia intestinalis.

All are helminthic diseases.Ascariasis is an infection caused by Ascaris lumbricoides, giant roundworm of humans belonging to the phylum Nematoda.
Ancylostomiasis is the condition of infection by Ancylostoma hookworms.
Enterobiasis (pinworm infection) is caused by a small and thin white roundworm called Enterobius vermicularis.
Wuchereria bancrofti is a human parasitic roundworm that is the major cause of filariasis.

DPT vaccine is used as control measure for diphtheria, pertusis (whooping cough) and tetanus (lockjaw).

Contagious diseases are those diseases which are communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient.
Ringworm is a contagious fungal infection caused by mold-like parasites that live on the cells in the outer layer of your skin.
Leprosy is a contagious disease caused by a bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, but is not easily transmitted.

Aedes aegypti is the primary vector of the dengue virus.
Glossina palpalis is the main vector of African sleeping sickness.
Filariasis is transmitted by female Culex mosquito.
Kala-azar is transmitted by Phlebotomus argentipes.

Zidovudine is used to slow the progression of disease in patients infected with HIV.
Isoniazid is used alone or with other drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB).
Chloroquine prevents the development of malaria parasites in the blood.
Albendazole is being used to treat lymphatic filariasis as part of efforts to stop transmission of the disease.

Asthma, scurvy, diabetes: All are non-communicable diseases.

Poliomyelitis spreads when the stool of an infected person is introduced into the mouth of another person through contaminated water or food (fecal-oral transmission). Ciliary dysentery (Balantidiasis) is transmitted primarily by eating food or drinking water that has been contaminated by human or animal feces containing Balantidium coli cysts, a protozoa not virus.

Smallpox is highly contagious disease. People get infected with smallpox virus by inhaling droplets of saliva, which are full of virus, during face-to-face contact with infected person.
Diphtheria is spread (transmitted) from person to person, usually through respiratory droplets, from coughing or sneezing.
Influenza viruses are spread mainly by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk.

Elephantiasis or filariasis is a vector borne helminthinc disease (caused by Wuchereria bancrofti) transmitted by female Culex mosquito.