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MOLB Chapter 12
The Eukaryotes
Term | Definition |
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Mycosis | fungal infection |
Characteristics of fungal disease | chronic many are opportunistic pathogens hard to distinguish foreign eukaryotic cells from human eukaryotic cells |
Giardia lamblia | Pathogenic protozoa causes giardiasis, cysts in feces |
Entamoeba histolytica | Protozoa causes Dysentery |
Taenia saginata | Helmith, beef tapeworm |
Vector | organism that carry pathogenic microbes |
Mites/Ticks | transmit Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, R. rickesetii, lyme disease, B. burgdorferi, |
Lice | epidemic typhus, |
Fleas | endemic murine typhus, plague |
Mosquitoes | malaria |