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Protozoa
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CHARACTERISTICS
-single cell, microscopic, single cell, eukarya, free living, base of food chain, chemoheterotroph, aerobic respiration, asexual PATHOGENS malaria diarrhea african sleeping sickness |
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Fungi
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CHARACTERISTICS
-fruiting bodies, mostly asexual, cellular or multicellular, mostly free living, heterotroph, non motile, eukaryotic makes treatment difficult -yeast, molds & mushrooms PATHOGENS mycoses- candida albicans coccidiodes immitis pneumocystis jirovecii ringworm athletes foot nail bed fungus |
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Anthropods
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CHARACTERISTICS
instects and arachnids, vectors of disease PATHOGENS mosquitos- malaria, west nile virus fleas- plague lice- typhus ticks- lyme disease mites- scabies |
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Helminths
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CHARACTERISTICS
multicellular, parasitic, hermaphrodites, complex life cycle, one host for initial life cycle and one for later life cycle PATHOGENS nematodes- (round worms) ascaris lumbiricoides cestodes-(tape worms) flat worms, contaminated meat trematodes- (fluke) contaminated food and water, block vessels cause swelling |
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infectious disease
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a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
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subclinical infection
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asymptomatic (without apparent sign) carrying of an (infection) by an individual of an agent (microbe, intestinal parasite, or virus) that usually is a pathogen causing illness
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localized infection
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limited to a specific part of the body
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systemic infection
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affects a number of organs and tissues or the body as a whole
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