Algae=
autotrophs
Paramecium
Ciliates
Balalntidium
Trichonympha
disease :African
Brucei
vector: tesetse fly
sleeping sickness
Trypanosoma
disease :South
AMerican sleeping
cruzi
vector: kissing bug
sickness
location: transmitted
cysts (dromat form)
via oral-fecal route
disease：giardiasis epidemic diarrhea
Flagelates
trophozoties (feeding
location : small
form)
intestine
Giardia
treatement : self
limiting
disease:trichcomoniasis
(sexually-transmitted
disease)
Flagellates =
ex: trichomonas valis
heterotrophs
(human prasites)
Trichomonas
location : vaginalis
condom
treatment
metronidazole
Amoeba
trophozoites
Amoebae
found: loose stools
ulcerative colitis
severe dysentery
extraintestinal
disease
amoebiasis
Entamoeba
fetal brain infection
Eukaryotic Pathogens
infection occurs : cyst
ingested in fecally
contaminated food or
water
characterized: periodic
fever and chills
plasmodium
disease : malaria
Quinine
vector :anopheles
mosquito
Apicomplexans
derivatives
toxoplasma
drug-resistant
cryptosporidium
coenocytic: continuous
General morphology: Hypha
Macroconidia
sepate: with cell walls
(septum)
microconidia
Vegetative reproduction
Sporangia - a receptacle
Morphology
Asexual reproduction
identical halpoid organisms
in which asexual spores
are formed
Condia - asexual, nonmotile spore of a fungus
non-identical halpoid
sexual reproduction
organism
Phialospores
T.Pedis
T.cruris
T.unguinum
T.Corporis
"Valley fever"
infection: inhaled
arthrospores
Coccidioidomycosis
Fungi = heterotrophs
cause: skin legion from
diseminated infection
Introduction
in lungs
treatment:
amphotericin B
infection: from
birdropping, inhaled
cells
Systemic Mycoses
Blastospores
Chlamydospores
T.Capitis
Fungal Disease
Arthrospores
Cryptococcosis
cause : meningitis
treatment: amphoericin
B, fluconazole
Opportunistic Mycoses
candidiasis
cause: vaginitis, thrush (oral candidiasis )
candida albicans
classed as fungus baded
on RNA
Pneumocystis jirovecii
infcetion : immunocompromised hosts, respiratory infection
animals
schistosoma
trematoda: flukes
complex life cycle
Parasitic worms
intermediate host :freshwater snail
Taenia
Cestoda: tapeworms
helminths
Echinococcus granulosus
Enterobius vermicularis
Nematoda：
roundworms
Trichinella spiralis
Ascaris lumbricodes