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Who is the definitive host?

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Host in which the sexual stage of a parasite life cycle occures

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What is: Mutualism? Commensalism? Parasitism?

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Mutualism: benefits both Comensalism: benifets one and neutral for the other Parasitism: benefits one and harmful for the other

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Who is the intermediate host?

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Host in which asexual reproduction or development occurs

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Who is the incidental or accidental host?

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The host is not an obligate part of the parasite life cycle

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Who is the reservoir?

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Animal hosts that maintain the natural cycle in the wild, often not really harmed

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Who is the vector?

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A host species that transmits an infectious form of the parasite to another host species (ex. mosquitoes transmit malaria)

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What are the two Platyhelminthes? (2)

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Cestoda (tapeworms) Trematoda (flukes)

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What are the physical characteristics of Tapeworms? (2)

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1) Flattened segmented bodies 2) No internal digestive system, nutrients absorbed across cuticle

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What are the physical characteristics of Flukes?

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1) Broad flattened bodies 2) Simple digestive system with a single opening for mouth and anus

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What is taeniasis? Cause? Location?

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1) Caused when you eat undercooked pork 2) Tapeworm is in intestine

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What is cysticercosis? Cause? Location?

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Cause: caused by eating tapeworm eggs location: larva in muscle, eyes and brain

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What is Taenia solium?

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Pork Tapeworm

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What is Taenia Seginata?

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Beef Tapeworm

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Who is the defnitive host for tapeworms?

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Humans

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Who is the intermediate host for tapeworms?

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Pigs, humans (cows for beef tapeworms)

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What is the pathology of Taeniasis?

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asymtomatic or causes abdominal discomfort, occasionally nausea, vomiting, diarrhae, weight loss and obstruction

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What is the pathology of Cysticercosis? (2)

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1) muscle may cause lumps but usually no symptoms 2) brain cause neurocysticercosis: confusion, difficulty with balance, brain swelling, mortality

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How do you diagnose pork or beef tapeworms? Self? Clinical?

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Self: active proglottids Clinical: eggs in stool

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How do you prevent beef or pork tapeworm?

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Well cooked or freezing

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What is Diphyllobothrium latum?

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Fish tapeworm

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What is the intermediate host of fish tapeworm? (2)

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copepod infects fish

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What is Echinococcosis?

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dog tapeworm

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How do you get Echinococcus?

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Eat the eggs from dogs

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What is the definitive host for Echinococcosis?

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Wild and domestic dogs

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What is a Hydatid cyst?
Parasitic infection from Echinococcosis
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What is Schistosomiasis?
Blood flukes
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What are three types of Schistosomiasis?
Schistosoma mansoni Schistosoma japonicum Schistosoma haematobium
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Where do you find the eggs for schistosoma mansoni?
Feces
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Where do you find the eggs for schistosoma japonicum?
feces
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Where do you find the eggs for Schistosoma haemotobium?
urin
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What causes the major symptoms for Schistosoma?
eggs become trapped in terminal portal venules where they incite chronic inflammation
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Which parasite has a major indictaion for liver cancer? (2)
Schistosoma mansoni and japonicum
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Which parasite has major indications for bladder cancer?
Schistosoma haematobium
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How is schistosoma transmitted?
Contact with water containing cercaria (snail)
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What causes swimmers itch?
duck schistosomiasis - inflamatory response to their eggs
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Where is S. mansoni found?
tributaries of african rivers caribbean brazil
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Where is S. haematobium found?
tributaries of african rivers
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Where is S. japonicum found?
standing water, rice paddies and lakes (lots in china)
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What is the lifestyle of Schistosome
1) males and females attached together in host 2) male pulls in nutrients 3) female pumps out eggs (1000/day)
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What is the structural identification of S. Mansoni?
Lateral spike
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What is the structural identification of S. haematobium?
Terminal spike
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What is the structural identification of S. japonicum?
No spike
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What is the morphology of cerecarial?
head part and tail part, head part stays when it burrows into skin
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What is the pathology of schistosoiasis? Early? Middle? Chronic?
Early: 0-2 weeks, no symptoms, maybe rash Middle: 1-2 months, katayma syndrom chronic: 5-15 years: continually produce eggs so theirs chronic inflammation, liver and colon cancer, bladder cancer
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What is Katayama syndrome? When does it occur?
Schistosamiasis eggs cause an intense immune reaction or cytokine storm. patient has hyperactive immune system, fever etc... When: 14-84 days after Schistosamiasa infection
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How are Pinworms transmitted?
Ingestion of eggs, direct person to person
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What is the lifecycle of Pinworms? (4)
1) Females emerge from anus at night to lay eggs 2) Eggs in bedclothes 3) eggs swallowed and hatch in intestine, 4) adults mate and migrate to colon
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What is the pathology of Pinworms? (4)
Intense anal intch (from anus) Secondary infection from itching urogentital invasion in females trauma
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How do you diagnose Pinworms?
"scotch tape test" put scotch tape over anus and check for eggs
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How do Whipworms transmitted?
ingestion of embroyonated eggs
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Where do Whipworms attach to?
colonic mucosa
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What is the lifestyle of whipworms?
1) eggs mature in soil for around 10 days 2) Eggs swollowed and hatch in intestine 3) adults mate and migrate to colon 4) eggs passed in feces
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What is the pathology of whipworm? (2)
1) low level blood and diahhrae 2) chronic malnutrition
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How do you diagnose whipworm?
eggs in stool
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Where does Ascariasis infect?
upper intestine
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What is the lifestyle of Ascariasis?
1) females lay 200,000 eggs 2) eggs mature in soil for 3 weeks 3) eggs are swallowed 4) larvae hatch and invade intestinal mucosa 5) They enter venous circulating to lung 6) larvae are coughed and swallowed again 7) they mature and mate in small intestine
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What is the pathology for Ascariasis? (2)
1) chronic malnutrition and poor mental and physical development 2) can cause allregic inflammation during migration through lungs
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Where do Hookworms go?
Small intestine
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How are hookworms transmitted?
invade skin from soil, not person to person
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What is the lifecycle of Hookworms?
1) Larvae mature in soil 2) enters humans from soil through skin 3) goes into circulation and gets lodged in the lung 4) coughed up and swallowed 5) mature and go to small intestine
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What is the pathology of Hookworms? (2)
1) itching and swelling sometimes at site of entrance in skin 2) chronic malnutrition
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Where do Strongyloides go?
Small intestines
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What is the lifecycle of Strongyloides?
1) adults lay eggs in intestinal mucosa and they hatch there 3 ways: (depends on soil and immunity of host) 1) Larvae can infect a host directly from feces: they have a lung stage here 2) GOOD SOIL VERSION: If soil is conducive, larvae can go through development in the soil and mate and produce more larvae 3) BAD IMMUNE SYSTEM VERSION: Larvae can reinfect the host from the intestine themselves
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What is the pathology of Strongyloids? (2)
1) Pulmonary issues and chronic malnutrition 2) auto infection and immunosuppression leads to hyperinfection that can be fatal
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How can you diagnose Strongyloides? (2)
1) Larvae in stool 2) Larvae in sputum
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Where does Trichinosis live? Adults? Larvae?
Adults live in small intestine Larvae live in muscle
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What is the lifecycle of Trichinosis?
1)
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How is Trichinella transmitted?
By eating undercooked meat (pork) containingq encysted larvae
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What is the lifecycle of Trichinella?
1) larvae are released in the gastric environment 2) adults develop and mate in small intestine 3) male dies, female embeds in mucosa 4) live larvae birthed without eggs, female dies 5) Larvae enter lympatics/blood and encyst in muscle 6Larvae develop into encapsulated sprial and are vialbe for up to 10 years
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How long are encysted Trichinella larvae viable?
up to 10 years
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Who is the intermediate and definite host for Toxacariasis?
dogs
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How is Toxocariasis transmitted?
Ingested from soil, no human to human transmission
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What is the lifecycle of Toxacara canis?
1) Sexual cycle that produce eggs in feces 2) larvae can encyst in tissues and infect puppies in utero 3) humans infected by ingestion of eggs from dogs 4) in humans, larvae burrow through intestine and wander for months in any tissue
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Who are the accidental host of Toxocariasis?
humans
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What is the pathology for Toxocariasis? (2)
chronic malnutrition and neurological symptoms
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How do you diagnose Toxocariasis?
History of geophagia (eating dirt) and exposure to dogs No eggs in stool
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Where is Strongyloides distrubuted?
Warm places, United states and elsewhere

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