- Cryptosporidiosis
Cryptosporidiosis is an intestinal infection caused by Cryptosporidium parvum, a microscopic parasite. Cryptosporidiosis occurs worldwide and appears to be a relatively common cause of acute diarrhoea in young children. As ...
- Diarrhoea in Young Children
Diarrhoea is an increase in the frequency, runniness or volume of the faeces. Acute diarrhoea may be a symptom of infection of the digestive system (gastroenteritis) which is usually caused by a virus, but sometimes is caused by bacteria or ...
- Fever
Fever is defined as an increase in body temperature above the normal range (greater than 37.3oC in the morning or 37.8oC in the evening).
- Gastroenteritis
Gastroenteritis is the inflammation of the stomach and intestines. It may be caused by bacteria (such as campylobacter, salmonella and shigella), viruses (such as rotavirus or norovirus) or parasites (such as giardia and cryptosporidium)....
- Head Lice
Head lice (Pediculus capitis) are small, wingless, egg laying insects found on the human head. They grow to about 3.5mm (the size of a sesame seed or pin head). Head lice live on the hair and feed by sucking blood from the scalp. They ...
- Hydatid Disease
This disease is caused by infection with a small tapeworm parasite Echinococcus granulosus. People become infected by eating eggs of this parasite, usually when there is hand-to-mouth transfer of eggs in dog faeces. This can occur when ...
- Malaria
Malaria is caused by a parasite which is spread through the bite of particular types of mosquito (Anopheles species). There are five types of malaria parasites. The type called falciparum malaria is particularly dangerous ...
- Naegleria fowleri: Qs and As
What is Naegleria?
Naegleria is a free-living single-celled organism called an amoeba, commonly found in warm freshwater and soil. There are several species of Naegleria, but Naegleria ...
- Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM)
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rare and severe disease caused by a single-celled amoeba called Naegleria fowleri. It causes inflammation and destruction of the brain and the linings of the brain, and is usually ...
- Scabies
Scabies is a skin infestation with a mite called Sarcoptes scabiei. These mites burrow into the skin where they live and reproduce. Eggs laid in the burrows hatch, crawl out onto the skin and make new burrows.
- Tinea (Ringworm)
Tinea (also called ringworm) is a group of conditions caused by a fungal infection of the skin or hair follicles.
- Toxocariasis
Toxocariasis, is caused by migration of larval forms of a type of parasitic round worm which is part of the Toxocara species. Toxocariasis is a chronic, usually mild disease. Toxocariasis is common wherever dogs are found and the larval ...
- Toxoplasmosis
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. ...
- Trichomoniasis
Trichomoniasis is caused by a tiny parasite called Trichomonas vaginalis. This parasite infects the genitals and urethra (the tube which carries urine from the bladder to the outside) in both men and women.
