TRANSMISSION ROUTES OF TROPICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Consumption of polluted water,
1. include the danger of ice cubes : amebiasis, giardiasis.
Consumption of unpasteurized dairy:
1. toxoplasmosis, Tb bovis.
Arthropod bites
1. horsefly
  1. (filariasis)
2. mosquito bites
  1. malaria, filariasis, leishmaniasis, dengue, Zika, Chik, yellow fever
3. ticks
  1. babesiosis
4. flies
  1. African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness
5. triatoma infestans
  1. trypanosoma cruzi or Chagas disease
6. blackflies
  1. Onchocerciasis
Consumption of raw meat or barely cooked meat
1. amphibian
  1. mammals
    1. reptiles
    2. birds
2. toxoplasmosis
Consumption of raw fish or barely cooked:
1. Amphimerus, Clonorchis, opisthorchis, Anisakis
Consumption of raw vegetables:
1. fascioliasis
Consumption of raw eggs, or barely cooked ones:
1. salmonella, toxoplasmosis.
: Contact with sweet water:
1. swimming in rivers, swimming pools or lakes
Sexual contact
1. Trichomoniasis, HIV, herpes II
Transplacental via:
1. T. cruzi, Plasmodium spp., Toxoplasmosis, visceral leishmaniasis, malaria.
soil contact:
1. walking barefoot or being in direct contact with the ground or soil
  1. ancylostomiasis & strongyliodiasis.

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