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Is it true that many protozoa are parasites and cause disease such as malaria amoebic dysenteryand African sleeping sickness?
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All the diseases, which are mentioned above are caused by protozoa.
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What are the harmful and useful effects of Protozoa?
cause sleeping sickness
These large complex single celled organisms can cause disease like African sleeping sickness?
They are known as protozoa. They include free-living forms (amebas and paramecia) as well as parasites.
Is Human African Trypanosomiasis or African Sleeping Sickness viral or bacterial?
I believe its Protozoa Parasitic .
What kind of damage does protozoa do to you?
Protozoa infestations cause: Amoebiasis, Chagas disease, Cryptosporidiosis, Dysentery, Giardiasis, Leishmaniasis, Malaria, Sleeping Sickness, Toxoplasmosis, and Trichomoniasis.
What diseases does protozoa carry?
Examples of human diseases caused by protozoa: malaria, amoebias , giardiasis , toxoplasmosis , cryptosporidiosis, trichomoniasis , leishmaniasis , sleeping sickness , dysentery,
Is protozoan a parasite?
Protozoa are basically protists. They are NOT animals or plants; they are often considered as a separate kingdom.
How do you get African sleeping sickness?
It is caused by the bite of the tsetse fly which carries the protozoa in it's saliva that causes the disease.
What type of disease transmission is the sleeping sickness?
It is a unicellular parasitic protozoa transferred by tsetse fly in Africa (sleeping sickness, T. bruceii) or the assassin bug in central and south America (chagas, T. cruzii).
What large complex singled cell organisms cause African sleeping sickness and giardiasis?
The Kingdom Protista. Older name; protozoa.
What are some examples of human diseases caused by protozoans?
Some protozoa are human parasites, causing diseases.Examples of human diseases caused by protozoa:MalariaAmoebiasisGiardiasisToxoplasmosisCryptosporidiosisTrichomoniasisLeishmaniasisSleeping SicknessDysentery
What are five examples of protozoans?
Protozoa are one celled organisms. Many protozoans are responsible for diseases in humans. Some of these are: dysentery, malaria, toxoplasmosis, and sleeping sickness.
Sleeping sickness is cause by what?
Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) is caused by Tsetse fly.
