Diseases Caused by Protozoa

 

Name of Disease

Causing Agent

Mode of Transmission

Malaria

Plasmodium

bite of infected female anopheles mosquito

Amoebic dysentery or Amoebiasis

Entamoeba histolytica

contaminated food and water

Sleeping sickness or Trypanosomiasis

Trypanosoma gambiense

bite of tsetse fly

Kala azar or Black sickness

Leishmania donovani

bite of sandfly