Travel English
Giardia and malaria show up in travel clinics more than in kitchen talk.
CDC yellow-book style pages name prevention at the public level — nets, water, food — and stop before laboratory technique.
Local English also misuses amoeba for any blob under a toy microscope. Keep the disease names attached to the right organisms.
Local notes
Malaria naming
Plasmodium is the genus; malaria is the disease word most readers need.
Not a home culture
Pond-water hobby microscopy is not a diagnostic lab. This page stays educational.
Official pages own schedules and treatment. This atlas does not.
More in Tree of microbes
Bacteria
Single-celled prokaryotes with cell walls — the oldest widespread life form, and both partners and pathogens.
Familiarity 95Viruses
Packets of DNA or RNA that are not cells — they replicate only inside living hosts.
Familiarity 96Fungi
A eukaryotic kingdom of yeasts, moulds and mushrooms — chitin walls, external digestion, partners of plants.
Familiarity 80Archaea
A prokaryotic domain that is not bacteria — methanogens, extremophiles and no known human pathogens.
Familiarity 35Bacteriophages
Viruses that infect bacteria — Earth's most abundant biological entities, and a concept-level idea in medicine.
Familiarity 42