Tropical diseases - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Test Bank For Nutrition Through the Life Cycle 8e Judith E. Brown-1. Individuals without risk factors for heart disease should limit cholesterol intake to no more than 300 milligrams a day. a. True b. False ANSWER: True POINTS: 1 REFERENCES: Principles of the Science of Nutrition QUESTION TYPE: True / False HAS VARIABLES: False LEARNING OBJECTIVES: NTLC.BRWN.24.1.1 - Understand the meaning of the nutrition concepts presented. KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand DATE CREATED: 11/29/2023 11...

Ecology The distribution of organisms and their abundance Ecological levels of research global, landscape, ecosystem, community, population, organismal ex. global ecology Compare in diff continents. (compare its evolution with parasites) ex. ecosystem ecology Compare hemoglobins in different latitudes. (compare O2 carrying capacity) ex. organismal ecology Compare with other O2 carrying pigments. (compare with crab blood, which is blue) ex. organismal ecolo...

Chapter 1: Introduction To Medical Parasitology Questions And Answers Parasitology Dependance of one living organism on another Medical Parasitology Concerned with parasites that affect humans and their medical significance Tropical Medicine Branch of medicine which deals with tropical diseases and other special medical problems of tropical regions. Tropical Disease Illness that is indigenous to or endemic to a tropical area Symbiosis Living together of unlike organisms

Before man 11,500 B.P. - Answer-giant animals, megafuana, land bridge between Alaska and Russia Pre-European Era - Answer-the clovis (hunter gatherers), overkill of megafuana, native americans (agriculture), columbus in 1492 Era of Abundance - Answer-Europeans show up to North America, abundance of wildlife & natural resoucres Era of Overexploitation - Answer-network of railroads and telegraphs, animals were becoming scarce, demand for animals products increased, some species went extinct...

This summary includes all notes taken in class on the lessons of the course Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases of the 2nd Master Infectious and Tropical Diseases at UAntwerp. !Contains everything except the self-study on sampling!

what is a parasite? Answer - an organism that lives on/in a host and gets its food from/at expense of host what makes a parasite different than other microorganisms? Answer - similar cells to humans what are the groups of parasites? Answer - helminths, protozoa how can helminths be divided? Answer - round worms (nematodes) and flat worms (trematodes/flukes) (cestodes/tapeworm) what is an advantage of being a parasite? Answer - be free from predators disadvantage of being a parasit...

WIS2552 Exercise 3 Guaranteed Success Scientists conducted domestication experiments on Paca in ____. ️Panama It is legal to hunt alligators in Florida. ️True Some Venezuelan ranch owners are more inclined to protect wetlands because they support capybara. ️True One ton of rabbits can be produced in ____. ️3 months Frugivores like the ____ are popular as wild game but difficult and expensive to farm. ️Paca Tropical forests are about ____ as productive as savannahs. ️1/1...

REHS- Communicable diseases 1/3 - correct answer What fraction of water and food borne illnesses are reported? Onchocerciasis - correct answer river blindness, neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic worm carried by black flies Neglected Tropical Diseases - correct answer Thirteen treatable diseases, most of them parasitic, that are prevalent in developing countries but receive much less attention than tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS. Education - correct answer Prevention of...

Energy sources - Carbs and protein= 4 cal/gram; fat= 9 cal/gram; the brain uses glucose for energy, uses ketone bodies during starvation Tissue storage of glucose - Muscles and liver= store glycogen; adipose tissue= fat; cellular mass= protein stores Gluconeogenesis= conversion of non-carb sources into glucose by glycerol and amino acids Homeostasis - Keeps the internal environment/temp of the body at a state of equilibrium Cellular oxidation - Enzymes= proteins, organic catalysts tha...

Contemporary Urban Environments, Exam Review Questions and answers/ Urbanisation - -An increase in the proportion and in the number of people living in cities Urbanisation 2 main causes - -Natural increase: Birth rate higher than death rate Rural-Urban Migration: People moving from the country side to the city due to push and pull factors BRIC countries - -Brazil, Russia, India, China MINT countries - -Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey Pull factors of cities - -More entertainment ven...