Protozoan Infections

Follow the links below to find information about protozoan infections, including toxoplasmosis, trichomoniasis, cryptosporidiosis, giardia and malaria.

Reviewed May 2011

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Cryptosporidiosis

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Title:   Toxoplasmosis
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Toxoplasmosis is rarely a serious illness in healthy people but it can cause problems for an unborn baby if it is caught by the baby's mother during pregnancy.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Toxoplasmosis - reducing the risks
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Humans become infected with Toxoplasma gondii parasites through contact with infected animal - usually cat - faeces (poo). Normally, symptoms are mild. However, infection with the parasite during pregnancy has been known to cause birth defects. It can also cause illness in people with a compromised immune system. Pregnant women and immune-compromised people should take precautions.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Antibiotics versus control for toxoplasma retinochoroiditis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Toxoplasma retinochoroiditis occurs when a parasite called toxoplasma gondii gets into the retina (the light sensitive layer inside the eye) and the choroid (layer of the eyeball near the retina). This causes inflammation that can scar the retina and re...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Amoebiasis (amoebic dysentery)
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Amoebiasis is an infectious disease caused by a one-celled parasite called Entamoeba histolytica, which causes both intestinal and extraintestinal infections. Although anyone can have this disease, it is most common in people who live in developing countries that have poor sanitary conditions.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Water tanks and dams - safety tips
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   The highest quality water available should be used for drinking. Rainwater tanks are often the safest source but there are contamination risks that can cause severe gastric illnesses. After a bushfire, flood or other extreme weather event, drinking water may be contaminated. Analysts can assess your water to ensure it is safe to drink.
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Toxoplasmosis
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Toxoplasmosis is an acute infection caused by the organism Toxoplasma gondii. In healthy adults, the infection often goes unnoticed because the flu-like symptoms are mild. But in people with suppressed immune function or who are pregnant, toxoplasmosis can have serious health risks.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Trypanocidal drugs for late stage, symptomatic Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi infection)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi causes American trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease. There is evidence that trypanocidal drug treatment, using nitrofuran and imidazolic compounds, can treat acute trypanosomiasis cruzi infections. However, it...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Toxoplasmosis
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   In people who have a weakened immune system, the initial infection, or infection that results following the reactivation of tissue cysts persisting after an old infection, may affect the brain, lungs, heart and skeletal muscle, eyes and skin. Persons with weakened immune systems and pregnant women should be particularly careful to avoid contact with cat faeces and soil, and to avoid eating undercooked meats and vegetables.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Gastroenteritis - amoebiasis
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Amoebiasis is a type of gastroenteritis (gastro) and is a cause of diarrhoea among travellers to developing countries. Avoid drinking unbottled water and eating uncooked foods, especially raw fruits and vegetables which cannot be peeled before eating, when travelling to areas with poor sanitation. Proper handwashing helps prevent the spread of this type of gastro. When travelling overseas, especially to developing countries, remember to 'cook it, peel it or leave it'.
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Chemotherapy for second-stage Human African trypanosomiasis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a painful and protracted disease transmitted through the bite of infected tsetse flies and it is found in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Sleeping sickness has two clinical phases but this...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Toxoplasmosis
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by an organism called Toxoplasma, which infects humans, birds and other animals such as cats, mice, sheep, pigs and kangaroos.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Interventions for American cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   American cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, a disfiguring and stigmatising disease affecting Central and South American regions, is caused by a parasite transmitted by sandflies. Pentavalent antimonial drugs (sodium stibogluconate (Pentostam, St...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Antiamoebic drugs for treating amoebic colitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Amoebic colitis is caused by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica. This protozoan is distributed throughout the world and is commonly acquired by ingestion of contaminated food or water. It is estimated that about 40 to 50 million people infected with E. ...
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Image-guided percutaneous procedure plus metronidazole versus metronidazole alone for uncomplicated amoebic liver abscess
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Amoebiasis (disease caused by the protozoan Entameoba histolytica) remains an important clinical problem in countries around the world, with 40 to 50 million people affected. Mortality rates are significant, with 40,000 to 110,000 deaths each year. In f...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Interventions for Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis (OWCL) is a disfiguring and stigmatising disease occuring in areas of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia, caused by a parasitic infection transmitted by sandflies. Pentavalent antimonial drugs such as sodium stibog...
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Prenatal education for congenital toxoplasmosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite, Toxoplasma gondii. Eating raw or insufficiently cooked meat, not washing hands thoroughly after handling raw meat or gardening, or contact with cats' faeces (directly or indirectly through the soil, or po...
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Toxoplasmosis
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   A guide to recognising and treating toxoplasmosis in young children.
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Ocular toxoplasmosis is the commonest identifiable cause of posterior uveitis. It predominantly affects children and young people (25-45 years) and is characterised by recurrences that can ultimately lead to significant visual loss.
Date:   Aug 2002
Title:   Trypanocidal drugs for chronic asymptomatic Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite causing Chagas' disease, infects about 18 million people living across Latin America. About 30% of them develop a major heart disease in their 30s or 40s, after decades of silent infection. No treatment is considered useful...
Date:   Nov 2001

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