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Vector-Borne Diseases: Vectors and the Pathogens They Transmit, Parasite Groups and Echinococcosis

A reading assignment that defines vectors and vector-borne disease and tabulates the diseases by their vector, from Aedes-transmitted chikungunya, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, yellow fever and Zika to the Anopheles malarias and trypanosomiasis. It then groups the pathogens into protozoa, the trematode flukes with their tegument and feeding, the nematode roundworms including Trichuris trichiura and its egg-to-soil transmission, and the cestodes. The closing pages take hydatid disease from Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis through its transmission, the anaphylaxis risk when a cyst ruptures, imaging, the albendazole regimen with paired catheterisation, and prevention.

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