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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