REVIEW ARTICLE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PARASITES, INFECTIONS AND DISEASES

Abstract

Parasites are microorganism that need host to continue its lifecycle, some of them need more than one host (primary and intermediate). In this review article the researcher focus on the main types of parasites that causes a certain infections that’s leads to a certain diseases and classified them into diseases that caused by one cell parasites such as malaria, and Leishmania, and that was caused because of infection from multi cells parasites such as elephantiasis, and bilharzias which are due to the importance of these two infections as the most popular diseases all of the world. Also the article went through the life cycles of each disease. The article also went through the needed precautions to avoid infections with all kinds of parasites like personal hygiene, avoid contaminated food and water, as well as infected places.