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This document discusses several protozoan diseases that can infect humans, including amoebiasis, diarrhea, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, trichomoniasis, malaria, toxoplasmosis, and balantidial dysentery. It lists these protozoan diseases as those that are caused in humans.
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