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The disease may also be spread through blood transfusion, organ transplantation, consuming food or drink contaminated with the parasites, and vertical transmission (from a mother to her baby). [1] Diagnosis of early disease is by finding the parasite in the blood using a microscope or detecting its DNA by polymerase chain reaction . [ 4 ]
Glandular fever, Pfeiffer's disease, Filatov's disease, [1] kissing disease: Swollen lymph nodes in the neck of a person with infectious mononucleosis: Specialty: Infectious disease: Symptoms: Fever, sore throat, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, fatigue [2] Complications: Swelling of the liver or spleen [3] Duration: 2–4 weeks [2] Causes
Cat-scratch disease: Bartonella henselae: cats bites or scratches from infected cats Chagas disease: Trypanosoma cruzi: armadillos, Triatominae (kissing bug) Contact of mucosae or wounds with feces of kissing bugs. Accidental ingestion of parasites in food contaminated by bugs or infected mammal excretae. Chikungunya: Alphavirus chikungunya
It might sound like a fake virus you want your significant other to catch -- but it's definitely the wrong kind of cootie. The "Kissing Bug" disease has some 8 million people scared for their life ...
Its reservoir is in wild animals but its vector is a kissing bug. This is a contagious disease and can be transmitted through a number of ways: congenital transmission, blood transfusion, organ transplantation, consumption of uncooked food that has been contaminated with feces from infected bugs, and accidental laboratory exposure. [citation ...
The most infamous flea-to-human transmitted disease is the bubonic plague, which was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry and how to ...
Another large group of vectors are flies. Sandfly species transmit the disease leishmaniasis, by acting as vectors for protozoan Leishmania species, and tsetse flies transmit protozoan trypansomes (Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypansoma brucei rhodesiense) which cause African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). Ticks and lice form another ...
The species is known to carry and transmit diseases including Zika, dengue and yellow fever, though Placer County officials say those infections are not circulating in the county.