These parasites only infect human skin as they lack the enzymes to burrow deeper

Can be smoked out

Caused by the larvae of the ringworm family

Parasites live in the intestines of cats, dogs and wild animals

Can be burnt out

Treated with Ivemectin

Form of myasis

Treated with metronidazole

Caused by the larvae of the hookworm family

Caused by dragonfly

Caused by guinea worm that can infect water fleas - that can live in water that can be ingested by humans

Worm grows within skin and bursts out - painfully

Caused by botfly

Can be up to a meter long

Usually no symptoms for a week - then burning pain as fly emerges

Usually longer than 20 meters

Usually no symptoms for a long time - a year ish

visceral leishmaniasis causes sores and ulcers - can scar or lead to bacterial infection

From mosquitos

cutaneous leishmaniasis causes sores and ulcers - can scar or lead to bacterial infection

Cutaenous infections can be cut out/frozen out/ heated out or poisoned out

3 types - visceral, cutaneous and mucosal

From ingested faeces

prevented with malarone prophylaxis

visceral is more serious - can and can affect liver, spleen and bone marrow

Visceral form can be treated with amphoteracin

From guinea worm

From female sand flies

viseral form can be treated with metronidazole

From cat shit

P.Ovale

P.Malariae

P.Knowlesi

P.Falciparum

P.Vivax

Presents with septic shock

Can cause rice water diarrhoea

Transmission through female anopheles mosquito

Common features include fever, tiredness, vomiting ahd headaches

Treatments can be based on quinine

P.Falciparum is the most fatal

Presents with fever/chills

Can result in jaundice, seizure, coma, death

Can be transmitted transplacentally

Presents with heamaturia

Treatments can be penicillin based

P.Ovale is the most fatal

P.Malariae is the most fatal

Can cause black water fever

spread by tsetse fly

East/south east africa - T.b rhodiense

West/north west africa - T.b rhodiense

incubation time - 2-3 weeks

Weeks to months after bite the second stage begins with confusion, poor coordination, numbness and trouble sleeping

found in central africa

East/south east africa - T.b gambiense

incubation time - 2-3 years

Intially cannot stay awake

Chronic - stages of intestse sleep

Known as african fever

West/north west africa - T.b gambiense

Known as sleeping sickness

First stage is itching, fever headache and joint pains

MALARIOCIDE

MALARONE

P.FALCIPARUM

P.MALARIAE

P.OVALE

P.KNOWLESI

P.VIVAX

malaria

giardia lamblia

entamoeba histolytica

Family of parasitic hermit crabs

Family of parastic tics

Family of parasitic bats

Family of parasitic arachnids

Family of blood feeding flies

Family of parasitic worms