Trypanosomiasis

Vector: Trypanosoma cruzi → Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)

What our notes say

• Vector: Trypanosoma cruzi → Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) (YEAR 3 PARASITOLOGY NOTES)
• Glossina transmits African trypanosomiasis, not American. (Medical Bacteriology and Entomology)
• TRYPANOSOMIASIS — African (Old World) sleeping sickness (Medical Vectors: Ticks, Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis & More)
• Glossina = tsetse fly (African trypanosomiasis); Simulium = onchocerciasis; Ixodes = Lyme disease. (Hematopathology MCQs & Essays: MBChB Exam Revision Guide)
• Antiprotozoals — Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis, Others (Pharmco Notes)
• | Pentamidine | African trypanosomiasis (early stage); PCP prophylaxis (nebulised) | Nephrotoxicity · hypoglycaemia · hypotension | (Pharmco Notes)

Study material on Trypanosomiasis

• Medical Vectors: Ticks, Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis & More
• Medical Entomology Questions
• Trypanosoma
• Medical Parasitology
• Medical Bacteriology and Entomology
• Medical Bacteriology and Entomology MCQs
• Haemoflagellates: Trypanosoma, Leishmania, and Pathogenic Diseases

Related topics

• Leishmaniasis
• Filariasis
• Sandfly
• Tick-Borne Encephalitis
• Trypanosoma
• Tsetse Fly
• Flea
• Leishmania
• Louse
• Tick