List of Various Diseases caused by Bacteria,Virus,Protozoa,fungus and Worm
Today I will be covering a very important topic “Various Diseases caused by Bacteria, Virus, Protozoa, fungus and Worm”. Form this topic 1 or 2 questions asked every competitive exam.
| Causatice Agent | Disease |
| Bacteria | Diptheria, Gonorrhoea, Meningitis, Whooping Cough, Pneumonia,Cholera, Leprosy, Typhoid, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Plague |
| Virus | Chichken Pox, Small Pox, AIDS, Yellow fever, Influenza, Polio-meritis phelebotomus, Measle, Mumps, Dengue fever, Rabies |
| Protozoans | Malarias, Kala-azar, Leishmaniasis, , Sleeping sicknes |
| Fungus | Athlete’s foot, Ringworms, Madura foot, Dhobi’s itch |
| Worm | Filaria, Tapeworm and Hookworm transmission |
Diseases Caused By Bacteria
| S.N. | Disease | Affected Organ | name Of Bacteria | Symptoms |
| 1 | Diphtheria | Respiratory tube | Corynebacterium diptheriae | Difficulty In respiration and suffocation |
| 2 | Gonorrhea | Urinary Path | Neisseria Gonorrhoeae | Swelling in urinary path |
| 3 | Cholera | Intestine | Vibrio Cholerae | Continuous stool and vomiting |
| 4 | Leprosy | Nervous system skin | Mycobacterium leprae | Spots on body, nervous affected |
| 5 | Typhoid | Intestine | Salmonella typhia | High fever and headache |
| 6 | Tetanus | Nervous System | Clostridium Tetani | High fever, spasm in body, Closing of Jaws etc.. |
| 7 | Tuberculosis | Lungs | Mycobacerium tuberculosis | Repeated coughing |
| 8 | Plague | Lungs, area between the two legs | Pasteurella pesties | Very high fever, muscular eruptions on the body |
| 9 | Whopping cough | Respiratory system | Hemophilis pertusis | Continuous coughing |
| 10 | pneumonia | Lungs | Diplococcus pneumonia | High fever, swelling in lungs |
| 11 | Syphilis | Urinary Path | Treponema pallidum | Wounds In urinogenial tract |
Disease caused by Viruses
| S.N. | Disease | Affected Organ | Name Of Virus | Symptoms |
| 1 | Chichken pox | Whole Body | Variola virus | High fever, radish eruption on body |
| 2 | Small pox | Whole body | Varicella virus | Light fever, eruption of bile on body |
| 3 | Measles | Whole body | Morbeli virus | Radish eruption on body |
| 4 | AIDS | Defensive system (WBC) | HIV | Immune system of body became weak |
| 5 | Polio | Throat, backbone Nerve | Polio virus | Fever,body pain, backbone and intestine cells are destroyed |
| 6 | Influenza (flu) | Whole body | Mixo virus | Suffocation, sneezing, restlessness |
| 7 | Hepatitis or Jaundice | Liver | – | Yellow urine, Eyes and skin become yellow. |
| 8 | Dengue fever | Whole body, particularly head, eyes and joints | Billions of virus | Pain in eyes, muscles, head and joints |
| 9 | Rabies | Nervous system | Rabies virus | The patient becomes mad with sever headache and high fever |
| 10 | Meningitis | Brain | – | High fever |
| 11 | Trachoma | Eyes | – | Raddish eyes, pain In eyes |
| 12 | Gointre | Parathyroid glant | – | Difficulty in opening the mouth with fever |
| 13 | Herpes | Skin | Herpes | Swelling in skin |
Diseases Caused by Protozoa
| S.N. | Disease | Affected Organ | Parasites | Carrier | Symptoms Mosquito |
| 1 | Malaria | RBC & Liver | Plasmodium | Female Anophelies | Fever with shivering |
| 2 | Sleeping sickness | Brain | Trypanosoma | Tse – Tse files | Fever with severe sleep |
| 3 | Kala-azar | Bone marrow | Leismania donovani | Sand Files | High Fever |
| 4 | Diarrhoea | Intestine | Entamoeba Histolytica | – | Mucous & diarrohea with blood. |
| 5 | Pyorrhoea | Gums | Entamoeba gingivelis | – | Blleding from Gums |
Diseases caused by fungus
| S.N. | Disease | name Of Bacteria | Affected Organ & Symptoms |
| 1 | Asthma | Aspergillus fumigates | Aspergillus fumigates reaches the lungs of the human and constitutes a net like formation, thus, obstructs the function of lungs. This is a infectious disease. |
| 2 | Baldness | Taenia capitis | Due to this hair of the head falls. |
| 3 | Scabies | Acarus Scabies | In this disease the skin itches and white spots found on the skin. |
| 4 | Ringworm | Trycophyton Lercossum | This is infectious disease. Round red spot found on the skin. |
| 5 | Athlete`s foot | Tenia Pedes | This is a infectious disease of skin which spreads mainly due to the cracking of feet. |
Disease Caused by Worms
| S.N. | Disease | Pathogenic | Transmission Mode | symptoms |
| 1 | Hook-worm disease | Ancylostoma duobenale, small intestine of man | filariform larvae passed out in faeces | Duodenal ulcer, constipation. Patient pale, swelling of lower eyelids. |
| 2 | Pin worm disease or Enterobiasis | Enterobius vermicularis | Transmission from one person to another by ingestion of eggs in contaminated food or drink. | Eczematous condition round the anus, bed wetting at night, inflammation of vermiform appendix. |
| 3 | Filariasis | Wuchereria Bancrofti | mosquito larvae become infectious to man, | Elephantiasis |
- If waste material contaminates the source of drinking water, the most probability to spread the diseases is Typhoid.
- Louis Pasteur discovered the vaccine of Rabies and Pasteurization of milk.
- Charles Laveran discovered the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium in the blood of the affected person in the year 1880.
- Ronald Ross (1897) confirmed the Malaria is caused by Malaria parasite and told the mosquito is the carrier of it.
- In the year 1882, germane scientist Robert Koch discovered the bacteria of Cholera and T.B.
- Birds Flu is a disease that affects human beings and spread through poultry.
- AIDS full-form is Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome.