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Appendix D: Glossary
Appendix D: Glossary
Pages 533-540
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It is perhaps the world's most common worm infection, affecting approximately 1 billion people worldwide. The infection occurs in people of all ages, though children are affected more severely than adults.
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These larval cysts infect brain, muscle, or other tissue and are a ma jor cause of adult-onset seizures in most low-income countries. An individual acquires cysticercosis from ingesting eggs excreted by a person who has an intestinal tapeworm.
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Dracunculiasis: Also known as Guinea worm disease, dracunculiasis is caused by infection by the protozoan parasite Dracunculus medinensis. The disease affects poor communities in remote parts of Africa that do not have access to safe drinking water.
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government development initiative launched in 2009 that will invest $63 billion over six years to help partner countries improve health outcomes through strengthened health systems, with a particular focus on improving the health of women, newborns, and children through programs including infectious disease, nutrition, maternal and child health, and safe water. Hookworm infection: The hookworm is a parasitic nematode that lives in the small intestine of its mammalian host.
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form; visceral leishmaniasis is a more severe form, affecting vital organs of the body. Leptospirosis: A bacterial zoonotic disease caused by spirochaetes of the genus Leptospira that affects humans and a wide range of animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles.
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The infection results from the inhalation of endospores and from contact with the milk, urine, feces, vaginal mucus, or semen of infected animals. Rabies: An often fatal viral zoonotic disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals.
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Trachoma: An infectious eye disease, resulting from infection of the eye with Chlamydia trachomatis, that is the leading cause of the world's infectious blindness. Globally, 41 million people suffer from active infection, and nearly 8 mil lion people are visually impaired as a result of this disease.
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Yaws: An infection caused by Treponema pertenue that is a significant public health problem in three countries of the Southeast Asia region. Zoonoses: Microbes that are naturally transmitted between animals and humans that cause disease in human populations but can be perpetuated solely in nonhu man host animals (e.g., influenza, rabies)
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