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Question 1

Parasite is a

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organism that lives on or in another organism at the expense of this host

Question 2

Three types of parasites

Answer 2

protozoa helminths and arthropods

Question 3

transmission of protozoa that live in the intestine

Answer 3

fecal-oral route

Question 4

protozoa that live in the blood or tissue or humans transmission mode is

Answer 4

arthropod vector (malaria)

Question 5

Malaria symptoms

Answer 5

fever,chills flu like symptoms. if untreated severe complications and death

Question 6

Malaria parasite

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Plasmodium species, mainly plasmodium falciparum

Question 7

malaria vector

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anopheles mosquito

Question 8

diagnosis of malaria

Answer 8

blood films

Question 9

Malaria life cycle

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sporozoites injected under skin, travel through blood and enter liver, mature in lier and re-enter circulation as merozoites, invade red cells and lyse cells, sexual forms taken up by mosquitos

Question 10

Malaria control

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Insecticide treated nets, prophylaxis, Vaccine reserch

Question 11

Amoebic Dysentery is a

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Protozoal infection

Question 12

Amoebic Dysentry is caused by

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Entamoeba histolytica

Question 13

Amoebic dysentery causes

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diarrhoea with blood or pus. intestinal and extra intestinal infections. liver abscess in late disease

Question 14

Diagnosis of amoebic dysentry

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Hot stool sample-pseudopodia, cysts can be seen in the stool with microscope

Question 15

Amebic liver abscess characteristic

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reddish brown pus

Question 16

Protozoa 3 Leishmaniasis infection is caused by

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sandfly bites

Question 17

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

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skin or mucous ulceration

Question 18

visceral leishmaniasis

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fever, weight loss and hepatic-splenomegaly

Question 19

Leishmaniasis diagnosis

Answer 19

histology of biopsy material

Question 20

Three types of helminths

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Nematodes(round worms) Cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flat worms)

Question 21

Enterobiasis

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Threadworm, sellotape test, ova seen on microscopy

Question 22

Ascaris lumbricoides is a

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nematode

Question 23

\ascaris lumbricoides lifecycle

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ingested eggs hatch in intestine, large carried by the circulation to the lungs, swallowed again and adult worms develop in and inhabit small intestine

Question 24

ascaris lumbricoides symptoms

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often asymptomatic, transient pulmonary symptoms, mass of worms may obstruct small intestine or bile duct

Question 25

Cestodes, flat worms in pork

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taenia solium

Question 26

cestodes flat worms in beef

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taenia saginata

Question 27

cestodes lifecycle

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larval cysts are ingested in meat(int host) adult tape worm forms in human(def host) ingestion of t.solium eggs causes tissue cysts in humans. ova seen in stool

Question 28

Echinococcus is a

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Tapeworm

Question 29

Echinococcus is carried by

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dogs, wolves, foxes

Question 30

echinococcus lifecycle

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humans ingest eggs, eggs hatch and enter circulation, hydatid cyst forms in liver.

Question 31

lier cyst from what must be removed completely

Answer 31

echinococcus tapeworm

Question 32

Schistosomiasis is caused by

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flatworms: haematobium-bladder mansion-intestinal japonica-intestinal

Question 33

schistosomiasis cycle up to human

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ova excreted in urine, miracidia released in fresh water, penetrate body of snail, cercaria emerge from snails after 4-6 weeks and penetrate human skin.

Question 34

schistosomiasis cycle in humans

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migrate through lungs to liver, mature into worms tat migrate to mesenteric or bladder venues. lay eggs that cause inflation of bladder or intestinal wall.

Question 35

Acute febrile episode is(katayama fever)

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in schistosomiasis short period of fever when eggs are laid

Question 36

most severe schistosomiasis

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japonicium

Question 37

schistosomiasis haematobium causes

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haematuria, bladder cancer

Question 38

Eosinophilia and elevated IgE accompanies

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helminth infection

Question 39

Serology is

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detection of antibodies- useful in deep tissue infection