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PROTOZOAN INFECTION [10 records]

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Record 1 2022-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
  • Aquaculture
CONT

Denman Island disease is a reportable disease in Canada caused by an infection with the protozoan, Mikrocytos mackini.... The disease is named after Denman Island where the protozoan was first detected. Several species of oyster are susceptible to Mikrocytos mackini...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
  • Aquaculture
CONT

La maladie de l'île Denman est une maladie à déclaration obligatoire au Canada; elle est causée par le protozoaire Mikrocytos mackini. [...] Le nom de la maladie vient de l'endroit où le protozoaire a été initialement détecté. Plusieurs espèces d'huîtres sont vulnérables à Mikrocytos mackini [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
  • Acuicultura
CONT

[...] Mikrocytos mackini es la causa de la enfermedad de la isla de Denman.

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Record 2 2017-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parasitoses
Universal entry(ies)
B58
classification system code, see observation
DEF

A disease caused by infection with the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii.

CONT

Toxoplasmosis may cause flu-like symptoms in some people, but most people affected never develop signs and symptoms. For infants born to infected mothers and for people with weakened immune systems, toxoplasmosis can cause extremely serious complications.

OBS

B58: code used in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parasitoses
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
B58
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Maladie parasitaire due à Toxoplasma gondii.

OBS

B58 : code de la Classification statistique internationale des maladies et des problèmes de santé connexes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Parasitosis
Entrada(s) universal(es)
B58
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Enfermedad del hombre y de algunos animales domésticos causada por el parásito protozoario Toxoplasma gondii.

CONT

La toxoplasmosis se contrae al comer alimentos contaminados con excremento de gatos infectados o al comer carne contaminada mal cocida.

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Record 3 2017-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parasitoses
  • Animal Diseases
Universal entry(ies)
B57
classification system code, see observation
CONT

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.... T. cruzi is found mostly in blood-sucking triatomine insects(kissing bugs) and small mammals in a sylvatic cycle that is enzootic from the southern and southwestern United States to central Argentina and Chile.

OBS

B57: code used in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parasitoses
  • Maladies des animaux
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
B57
classification system code, see observation
CONT

La maladie de Chagas, ou trypanosomiase américaine, est une zoonose endémique en Amérique Latine. [...] La maladie de Chagas est une parasitose causée par le protozoaire flagellé Trypanosoma cruzi [...]

OBS

B57 : code de la Classification statistique internationale des maladies et des problèmes de santé connexes.

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parasitoses
  • Bowels
Universal entry(ies)
A07.1
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Infection of the gut with the flagellate protozoan Giardia lamblia, often causing diarrhoea, flatulence, and other symptoms of malabsorption.

OBS

A07.1: code used in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parasitoses
  • Intestins
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
A07.1
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Infection de l'intestin grêle par le protozoaire Giardia lamblia qui cause une diarrhée ainsi que des symptômes de malabsorption intestinale.

OBS

A07.1 : code de la Classification statistique internationale des maladies et des problèmes de santé connexes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Parasitosis
  • Intestinos
Entrada(s) universal(es)
A07.1
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Infección protozoaria común del intestino delgado, propagada por medio de alimentos y agua contaminados y contacto directo de una persona a otra.

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Record 5 2017-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bacterial Diseases
Universal entry(ies)
A59
classification system code, see observation
DEF

[A] very common sexually transmitted disease(STD) that is caused by infection with a protozoan parasite called Trichomonas vaginalis.

OBS

A59: code used in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies bactériennes
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
A59
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Infection transmise sexuellement très commune, causée par le protozoaire Trichomonas vaginalis.

OBS

A59 : code de la Classification statistique internationale des maladies et des problèmes de santé connexes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades bacterianas
Entrada(s) universal(es)
A59
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Infestación urogenital producida por Trichomonas vaginalis, es de transmisión sexual, se caracteriza por inflamación de las mucosas de los órganos sexuales y del tracto urinario, flujo anormal y comezón en la zona genital.

CONT

Tricomoniasis. Es la presencia de protozoos flagelados, pertenecientes a la Familia Tricomonadidae y al género tricomonas [...] En el ser humano ocurre la infección por la especie Trichomonas vaginalis, que se encuentra en el tracto genitourinario de la mujer y del hombre, [...] a través de las relaciones sexuales, considerándose por tanto una infección de transmisión sexual (ITS).

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Record 6 2016-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parasitoses
DEF

Colloquial term for any of the protozoan organisms causing malaria infections, including the infection of animals by parasites of the order Haemosporidia.

Key term(s)
  • malarial parasite

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parasitoses
DEF

Expression d'usage courant désignant tout protozoaire responsable des infections paludéennes, y compris les infections d'animaux, dues à des parasites de l'ordre des Haemosporidia.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

A disease caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trichomonas Spp.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
DEF

Infection causée par divers espèces de Trichomonas (protozoaire parasite).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
DEF

Enfermedad causada por el protozoo flagelado Trichomonas gallinae [...], el cuadro clínico se caracteriza por la presencia de lesiones necróticas en la cavidad oral y el esófago, con anorexia, disfagia, pérdida de peso y debilitamiento progresivo.

OBS

La infección es muy frecuente en columbiformes y la enfermedad es común en palomas y falconiformes, aunque también se ha descrito en diferente especies de psitácidas y paseriformes, anseriformes y galliformes. [...] La tricomoniasis es una enfermedad frecuente en las aves de presa que se conoce desde la Edad Media.

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Record 8 1991-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

infection of an organ or tissue by more than one microorganism, as in wound infections, abscesses, pneumonia, and rarely meningitis and endocarditis : mixtures of every type occur, e. g., bacterial and viral, bacterial and fungal, and protozoan and viral.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Infection paludienne par plusieurs espèces de Plasmodium.

Spanish

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Record 9 1987-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
CONT

Young-of-the-year rainbow trout clinically affected by proliferative kidney disease(PKD), a systemic protozoan infection, exhibit a massive proliferation of small lymphocytes in the posterior kidney and spleen, a decrease in erythrocyte packed cell volume, hemoglobin, and serum albumins and an increase in beta-globulins.(Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, June 1986, 12(1-4) pp. 387-393.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
OBS

Terme proposé par analogie avec «maladie à évolution chronique» (CDA-F, 1968, p. 62.)

Spanish

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Record 10 1986-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Animal Diseases
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
CONT

a hereditary disease called pébrine is caused by a Protozoan parasite.... Infection of the silkworm causes black spots on the skin, and development of the insect is slowed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Maladies des animaux
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
DEF

Maladie du ver à soie causée par un sporozoaire (Nosema bombycis). Les symptômes de la pébrine sont l'atrophie, l'irrégularité dans la taille des vers, souvent des taches noires sur l'épiderme (...). Maladie contagieuse et héréditaire (...)

Spanish

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