Classification of the tropical diseases

Viruses

Flavivirus

Vector: Aedes Aegypti

Rabdovirus

Vector: dogs, bats, racoon, rabbit

Patology:

Patology:

Zika

Chikungunya

Dengue

Transmision:

Through the bite of the aedes aegypti

Sexual activity

Mother to fetus

Transfusion of blood

Transmision:

Mother to fetus

Throug the bite of aedes aegypti

Transmision:

Trough the bite of aedes aegypti

Rabies

Transmision:

Though the bite of any of the vectors

Pox Zoster

Patology:

Pox

Transmision:

Vesicular exudate

Droplets of saliva

Reovirus

Rotavirus

Patology:

Gastroenteritis

Trasnmision:

Fecal-oral

Bacterium

Mycobacterim ulcerans

Patology:

Buruli ulcer

Transmision:

Uknown

Mycobacteriun leprae / Mycobacterium lepromatosis

Patology:

Leprosy or Hanse´s disease

Trasmision:

People to people

breast milk

Vector:

Armadillo, chimpanzee, mouse

Parasite

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Patology:

Trypanosomiasis or Sleeping sickness

Vector:

Tsetse flies

Transmision:

Mother to fetus

Through the bite of tsetse flies

Sexual contact

accidental punctures with contaminated needles

Leishmaniasis

Patology:

Cutaneos

Mucocutaneos

Visceral (Kala-azar)

Vector:

infected female sandflies (phlebotomus and lutzmyia)

Trypanozoma cruzi

Patology

Chagas disease

Vector

Triatomine borne

Triatoma dimidiata

Triatoma ecuadorensis

Reservoir

Dasypus novencinctus, rats, dogs, cats, chiken, bats

Transmision

Oral (contaminated food)

transfusion of blood

Mother to fetus

Organ transplatation

Lab accidents

Echinococcocis

Patology:

Cystic echinococcosis or hydatidosis

E. granulosus

Alveolar echinococcosis,

E. multilocularis

Polycystic echinococcosis

E. vogeli

Unique echinococcosis

E. oligarthrus

Vector:

Dogs, cats, camel, pigs, cows, fox, mouse

Transmision:

Ingesting: soli, food or drinking water that has been contaminated with eggs of the patogen

Dracunculus medinensis

Patology

Dracunculiasis Guinea warm disease

Transmision

Drinking stagnant water contaminated with parasite infected water fleas

Vector

crustaceans or copepods

Eating contaminates crustaceans or copepods

Foodborne trematodiases

Fasciola

Amphimerus

Transmision

Transmision

Eating unwell cooked freshwater fish

Eating uncooked aquatic plants

Reservoir

Snail

Patology

Fascioliasis

Paragonimus

Transmision

Clonorchis

Transmision

Opistorchis

Trasmision

Eating freshwater crabs

Eating unwell cooked freshwater fish

Ingesting freshwater or eating fish

Wuchereira brancofti, Brugia malayi, Brugia timori

Patology:

Lympathic filariasis / Elenfantiasis

Vector:

Culex quinquefasciatus

Anopheles

Aedes

Tranmision:

Though the bite of any of the vectors

Onchocerca volvulus

Patology:

Onchocercasis / River blindness

Vector:

Black fly (Simulium
ochraceum)

Transmision:

Though the bite of the vector

Schistosoma haematobium, S. japonicium

Patology:

Schistosomiasis

Vector:

freshwater
snails

Transmision:

Penetrate the skin during contact with infested water which has the parasite

Soil-transmitted Helminthiases

Trichuris trichuria / hook worm

Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus

Ascaris lumbricoides

Transmision:

Eating eggs that are in the soil and contaminated water

Transmision:

Infective larvae penetrate skin

Cestods

Taenia Solium

Patology

Taeniasis / Cysticercosis

Transmision

Through ingestion of larval tapeworm cysts present in undercooked, raw or infected pork

Fecal-oral

Ingesting food or drinking water that has been contaminated

neurocysticercosis

Vector

Pigs

Chlamydia Trachomatis

Patology:

Trachoma

Transmision:

Personal contact, fomites, flies that have been in contact with eye or nose infected discharge

Endemic treponematoses

T. carateum

T. pallidum type M

Treponema pallidum perteneu

Patology:

Patology:

Patology:

Yaws

Pian

Bejel

Reservoir:

Human

Transmision:

Person to person

Name: Jazmin Ordoñez

Bibliography:
Molyneux, D., Savioli, L., & Engels, D. (16 de Septiembre de 2016). Neglected tropical diseases: progress towards addressing the chronic pandemic. The lancet. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30171-4
OPS, OMS. (2021). Enfermedades desatendidas, tropicales y transmitidas por vectores. Recuperado el 10 de Octubre de 2021, de OMS: https://www.paho.org/es/temas/enfermedades-desatendidas-tropicales-transmitidas-por-vectores


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