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    Protozoan infections are parasitic diseases caused by organisms formerly classified in the kingdom Protozoa. These organisms are now classified in the...
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    types of organisms causing these conditions are protozoa (causing protozoan infection), helminths (helminthiasis), and ectoparasites. Protozoa and helminths...
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  • a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection. A paraphyletic group, protozoans have little in common with each other. For example...
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  • viral infections, less commonly bacterial infections, fungal infections, prion diseases and protozoan infections. Neonatal meningitis is a particular classification...
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    protection for the baby. Bacterial infection can develop with malaria. Infants that are infected by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii in utero can be born...
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  • Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are infections of blood caused by blood-borne pathogens. The detection of microbes in the blood (most commonly accomplished...
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    Balantidiasis is a protozoan infection caused by infection with Balantidium coli. Usually asymptomatic in immunocompetent individuals, but the symptoms...
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    A (1997). "Nitazoxanide for the treatment of intestinal protozoan and helminthic infections in Mexico". Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 91 (6): 701–3...
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    from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens, most prominently bacteria and viruses. Hosts can fight infections using their...
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    common modes of transmission. These fleas are not affected by the infection. Human infection occurs because of flea-fecal contamination of the bites on human...
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    Coccidia (section Infection)
    disease) List of parasites (human) Ponazuril, a drug used to treat protozoan infection in large animals that has shown effectiveness at treating coccidiosis...
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    with repeat babesiosis infection may exhibit premunity. Babesia species are in the phylum Apicomplexa, which also has the protozoan parasites that cause...
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    Guinea. Syphilis infections are increasing in the United States. Trichomoniasis is a common STI that is caused by infection with a protozoan parasite called...
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    flagellated protozoan parasite and the causative agent of a sexually transmitted disease called trichomoniasis. It is the most common pathogenic protozoan that...
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    pneumonia, a respiratory infection. Cryptosporidium is a protozoan that infects the gastrointestinal tract. Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan, known for causing...
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    concentration is its production rate, which increases with inflammation, infection, trauma, necrosis, malignancy, and allergic reactions.[citation needed]...
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    with a highly virulent strain, death may occur within 5 to 6 days of infection with minimal clinical signs other than the conjunctivitis. Death usually...
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    B.; Butcher, Barbara A. (2 August 2012). "Phagocyte Responses to Protozoan Infection and How Toxoplasma gondii Meets the Challenge". PLOS Pathogens. 8...
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    other two are Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica, infections by either of these are usually acquired from ingesting contaminated food...
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  • antihelminthic drugs to treat worm infections Antiprotozoal chemotherapy, the use of antiprotozoal drugs to treat protozoan infections Antiviral chemotherapy, the...
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    Toxoplasma gondii (/ˈtɒksəˌplæzmə ˈɡɒndi.aɪ, -iː/) is a parasitic protozoan (specifically an apicomplexan) that causes toxoplasmosis. Found worldwide...
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    the brand name Tindamax among others, is a medication used against protozoan infections. It is widely known throughout Europe and the developing world as...
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    Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or C-diff), also known as Clostridium difficile infection, is a symptomatic infection due to the spore-forming...
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    Chlamydia, or more specifically a chlamydia infection, is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Most people who...
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  • Protozoan infection Helminths – macroscopic parasitic worms that can live in different organs and tissues of their host Helminthiasis/Worm infection –...
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    bacterial and rickettsial diseases of humans and other animals, as well as of protozoan and helminth parasites. Bacterial diseases carried by fleas include murine...
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    female group. Common elands are resistant to trypanosomiasis, a protozoan infection that has the tsetse fly as a vector, but not to the Rhipicephalus-transmitted...
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    triatomine (assassin bug). The protozoan can enter the body via the bug's bite, skin breaks, or mucous membranes. Infection can result from eating infected...
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  • promotes the rapid clearance of various bacterial, viral, fungal and protozoan infections by removing intracellular replication niches and enhancing the host's...
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    Helminthiasis, also known as worm infection, is any macroparasitic disease of humans and other animals in which a part of the body is infected with parasitic...
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