Material for Degree College Lecturer posts in Zoology 

                   Protozoan Diseases of Man

S No	Name of the Organism	Disease	Mode of infection
1	Plasmodium falciparum	Malaria	Inoculation by female Anopheles mosquito
2	Entamoeba histolytica	Amoebiasis	Contamination of water and food
3	Entamoeba gingivalis	Pyorrhea
4	Trypanosoma gambiense	African sleeping sickness	Bite of tse-tse fly Glossina palpalis
5	Trypanosoma cruzei	Chagas disease	Faecal matter of Triatoma bug
6	Trypanosoma rhodesiense	Rhodesian sleeping sickness	Bite of tse-tse fly
7	Leishmania donovani	Kala azar	Bite of sand fly Phlebotomus
8	Leishmania tropica	Oriental sore	Bite of sand fly Phlebotomus
9	Trichomonas vaginalis	Vaginitis	Coitus or intercourse
10	Giardia lambia	Diarrhea	Contaminated food and water with cysts

 

Father of malariology is Charles Laveran

Espundia is caused by Leishmania brasilliensis

Quinine is used to treat malaria

Suramin is used to treat African sleeping sickness  

In Entamoeba histolytica, tetra nucleate cysts are infective stages to man 

Infective stages of Giardia intestinalis to man are tetra nucleate cysts

Chilomonas is an intestinal Protozoan parasite

Balantidium causes Balantidiosis

Balantidiosis is characterized by ulceration of colon

Nagana disease is caused by Trypanosoma brucei

Surra disease is caused by Trypanosoma evansi

Daurine disease in horses is caused by Trypanosoma equiperdum

Eimeria is present in the digestive tract of sheep and birds

Texas fever of cattle is caused by babesia

Daurine disease is the disease of sex organs in horses

Chagas disease is also called American Sleeping Sickness