Zoonosis |What is Zoonosis?
Short note: Zoonosis (DU-91U)
Ans:
Zoonosis means disease of
animals .Transmission of disease from animal to man is called zoonosis
animals .Transmission of disease from animal to man is called zoonosis
Examples:
◆ Leishmaniasis
◆ Trypanosomasis (Chagas disease and rhodesian sleeping sickness)
◆ Trichinelliasis
◆ Echinococcosis
◆Rabies
◆Plague
◆Anthrax
◆ Brucellosis
◆Anthrax
◆ Brucellosis
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Autoimmunity
It is an inmune reaction in which antibodies develop against some constituents of body's own tissue. e. g.automune antibody developing against RBC and causing anaema in Kala-azar& malaria.
Hypersensitivity |What is Hypersensitivity
Immune reaction not only protect but an access to the Ag for a second time can produce an abnormally exaggerated response which may themselves be injurious or may be responsible for pathological reactions in tissue.
◆ In quartan malaria (immediate type of hypersensitivity)
◆ In quartan malaria (immediate type of hypersensitivity)
◆In leishmaniasis(delayed type of hypersensitivity)
Premunition
This is a concomitant immunity or infectious immunity in which there is a relative resistance to reinfection of host still carrying the infecring organism.It disappears with the cure of parasitic infection.
●Malaria
● Schistosomiasis
● Schistosomiasis
Infection
Infection is a state of entrance of a disease causing agent imside the host, its development, multuplication,dissemination and development of some biochemical changes leading to overt or hidden clinical features.
Infestation
It is a state of lodgement, development& reproduction of arthropodes on the surface of body of a person or animal and also a state of invasion of gut by parasitic worms.
Reservoir
Any human,cow,monkey or any animal, arthropod, plant, soil or a substance( or a combination of all these) in which the infectious agent lives, multiplies, in which it depends primarily for survival & where it reproduces itself in such a way that it can be transferred to a susceptible host .
◆Man is the main reservor
◆ Pig for balantidiasis
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