Micro 73: Blood and Tissue Protozoa
This episode moves from luminal infections to protozoa that invade blood and deep tissues. Drawing from Murray’s Chapter 73, it examines organisms that establish systemic infection, often requiring vector transmission.
Major pathogens include:
* Plasmodium species - malaria; intraerythrocytic replication
* Babesia species - tick-borne haemoparasites
* Trypanosoma species - African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease
* Leishmania species - cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis
* Toxoplasma gondii - congenital and immunocompromised disease
These organisms frequently replicate within host cells…
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