Notes on Philippine Medically Important Protozoans Part 4 (Trypanosomes and Leismania spp.)Meccar

Moniem Elino, BSBio IV , Davao Doctors College

Instructor: Mrs. Chalee Sienes-Reyes, RMT, MSMT, Ph.D

Reference: Philippine textbook of Medical Parasitology 2nd ed.(2004) UP. Edited by Vicente Y. Belizario, Jr. and Winifreda U. de Leon

Disease Vector Portal of entry Infective Stage Infective Stage

for Vector

T. cruzi American

Trypanosomiasis or Chagas’ Disease

Infected Triatomine bug

Break Skn or intact mucous

Metacyclic Trypomastigote

Trypomastigote

T. brucei gambiense Gambian or West African Sleeping

Sickness Infected Tse-Tse Flies

Break Skn or intact mucous

Metacyclic Trypomastigote

Trypomastigote

T. brucei rhodesiense Rhodesian or East African Sleeping

Sickness Infected Tse-Tse Flies

Break Skn or intact mucous

Metacyclic Trypomastigote

Trypomastigote

Leishmania donovani Visceral Leishmanisis

or KALAAZAR Sand/Phlebotomus Fly

Skin/ Macrophages and monocytes of spleen,

liver, bone marrow Promastigote Amastigote

Leishmania tropica Cutaneous

Leishmaniasis Sand/Phlebotomus Fly

Skin/ Macrophages and monocytes of spleen,

liver, bone marrow Promastigote Amastigote

Leishmania braziliense Mucocutaneous

Leishmaniasis or ESPUNDIA

Sand/Phlebotomus Fly Skin/ Macrophages and monocytes of spleen,

liver, bone marrow Promastigote Amastigote