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trophozoites, 36 history of, 245 wet mount, 257, 259–261
comparison of cysts and, 54 overview of, 244–245 whipworms, 22
stage, 28 Tunga penetrans, 222, 225 infections of, 142–145
tropical medicine, 10, 26 turkey ticks, 247 WHO (World Health Organization), 9
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, 91, typhus, 214, 221 elimination of elephantiasis, 102
94–96 Tyson, Edward, 127, 139, 168 epidemiological surveillance by, 16,
disease transmission, 96 18, 32
identification procedures for, 276–279 U Trichomonas vaginalis, 43
laboratory diagnosis, 96 trypanosomiasis and, 91–96
ulcerations, 222
life cycle, 96 Wingradoff, Konstantin, 187
ulceroglandular, 245
morphology, 95 Winterbottom, Thomas, 95
UN (United Nations), 18, 32
overview of, 94–95 World Health Organization (WHO).
unembryonated eggs, 166
symptoms, 95–96 See WHO (World Health
unilocular, 207
treatment and prevention, 96 Organization)
United Nations (UN). See UN
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, 91, worms. See helminths
(United Nations)
94–96 “worms in children,” 136
urethral occlusion, 130
disease transmission, 96 Wright, James Homer, 81
urethral specimens, 283
identification procedures for, 276–279 Wright-Giemsa stains, 86, 116, 238
urine specimens, 283
laboratory diagnosis, 96 Wucherer, Otto Henry, 101, 103
U.S. Public Health Service, 123, 133
life cycle, 96 Wuchereria bancrofti, 103–105, 116
uterine pore, 170
morphology, 95 as cause for elephantiasis, 103
overview of, 94–95 disease transmission, 104
symptoms, 95–96 V laboratory diagnosis, 104
treatment and prevention, 96 life cycle, 103–104
vaginal specimens, 283
Trypanosoma cruzi, 91–94, 116 vascular system, 149 morphology, 103
disease transmission, 92–93 overview of, 103
vectors
history of, 91–92 flies as, 112 symptoms, 103
laboratory diagnosis, 93–94 treatment and prevention, 104–105
mites as, 216
life cycle, 92 organisms borne by ticks and other, Wyles disease, 19
morphology, 92
79, 221, 227–251
overview of, 91–92 Vesalius, Andreas, 139 Y
symptoms, 92
Vianna, Gaspar, 81 yellow fever, 9
treatment and prevention, 94 Vincent’s angina, 19
Trypanosoma rangeli, 92 Yersinia pestis, 222
Vinogradov, K. N., 189
trypanosomiasis, 237, 249 Virchow, Rudolf, 200 Z
African, 94–96
vitamin B , 157, 166
12
Chagas’s disease, 91–94 Vogel, Hans, 187 Zenker, Friedrich, 200
tsetse fly, 94–95 Zierdt, C. H., 58
volutin, 29
“tsetse fly belt,” 95 zinc sulfate, 266
tularemia, 219, 221, 225, 229, 250 W zinc sulfate centrifugal flotation
clinical symptoms and microbiological procedure, 266–269
diagnosis of, 245–246 Wenyon, Charles. M., 81 zoonoses, 5
epidemiology for, 245 West Nile virus, 87 zygote, 279