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What is the definition of parasitism?

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Organisms that use another organism, with deleterious but not lethal effects on the host

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What is the difference between symbiosis and commensalism?

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Symbiosis - positive for both

Commensalism - no negatives for the host

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Describe convergent evolution in parasites

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Parasites with different origins facing same selection pressures and challenges evolve to be similar

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What 3 things does the host provide?

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  1. Energy and nutrients
  2. Shelter
  3. Mobility and dissemination
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What is immunomodulation?

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Calibrating immune respones to make host more efficient

Hookworm -> reduces likelihood of autoimmune disease

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How do parasites cause direct behaviour modification of hosts?

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Switching genes on and off to favour their transmission

Eg Toxiplasma living in brain of rats to get inside cats

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What does landscape of disgust cause?

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Aniamls to move on from an infected area even if there is food there

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What does coevolution cause?

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Results in balance between host and parasite causing lower-cost immune response and decreased pathogenicity

“learn to live with each other”

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What are 2 key attributes that decrease during coevolution?

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Host immune response

Parasite virulence

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Who has more opporutinty for genetic change?

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Parasite - E.coli has new generation every 20 minutes

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What is the red queen hypothesis?

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A species must adapt not only for reproductive advantage, but because other organisms are also evolving

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What are 2 ways hosts can get around the fast parasitic generation times?

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  1. Sex -> multiple copies of genes so if parasite becomes resistant to phenotypic gene our next generation has a backup (parasite resistant phenotype)
  2. Adaptive immunity -> evolve in real time to new pathogens
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What are two options for the host when dealing with parasites?

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Resistance - coevolution between host and parasite

Tolerance - no immune response brought on

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What is host switching?

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Ability of a parasite to survive in a new host species

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What is host adding?

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Addition of extra hosts that expands distribution and aids transmission
Each additional host needs new set of parasite adaptations

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What is a protist?

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eukaryoite, single cell organism

Nuclei, organelles, mitochondria and can have flagella

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What 2 lineages show a predisposition for evolving into parasites?

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Apicomplexans and kinetoplastids

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What are the 3 major groups of protists?

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Metamonda
Apicomplexan
Kinetoplastida

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What are the 3 types of Metamonada?

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Diplomonads
Trichomonads
Histomonas

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What are 2 types of diplomonads and what do they do?

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Giardia - anaerobic, flagella, faecal oral transmission, prevents nutrient and water absorption in small intestine causing diorrhoea

Spironucleus + hexamita -> found in intestine of vertebrates - recognised disease of king parrots

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What are 3 types of tritrichomonads?

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Trichomonas gallinae

Tritrichomonas and tetratrichomonas

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What is tritrichomonas gallinae? (where does it live, who does it infect, how does it transmit)

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Metamonada
Pigeons and doves
Lives in upper GIT or repro tract
Oral-oral transmission (feeding young)

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What do tritrichomonas and tetratrichomonas do?

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Tritrichomonas foetus is veneral of bovine and causes diarrhoea in cats

Tetratrichomonas -> found in vertebrates as GIT parasites

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What does histomonas Meleagridis do?

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Intestinal parasites of poultry
Cause histomoniasis - invasion of caecal wall and liver

Larvae come out and eaten by earthworms, then poultry again

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What defines a kinetoplastida?
Has insect vectors Heteroxenous -> need multiple host species for lifecycle, veterbrates are intermediate hosts (sexual reproduction here)
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What are two types of kinetoplastida?
Leishmania Trypanosoma -> indirect life cycles with insect vectors
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What are two groups of trypanosoma?
Salivarian - transmitted in saliva of insect Stercorarian -> transmitted in faeces of haematophagous insect, excreted onto skin of host. penetrate wound and re-enter insect through blood meal
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What defines an apicomplexan?
Complex life cycles with multiple stages involving animal hosts, vectors and intracellular life stages Schizonts
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What are 3 types of apicomplexans?
Piroplasms Malarial parasites Coccidians
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What do piroplasms do? (definitive hosts, intermediate stage location, reproduction site)
Tick parasites are definitive host - sexual reproduction here Intermediate stages in vertebrates (cattle) causing tick fever Reproduce in blood/endothelium by clonal reproduction (schizonts)
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What are vectors, definitive hosts and where does reproduction occur in Malarial parasites?
Vectors -> biting dipteran insects Definitive host -> dipteran insects (sporogony here - asexual spore production) Merogony in hepatocytes and blood/endothelial/macrophages
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Coccidians - host, what do they cause, examples of species
Hepatozoon -> infect invertebrates and can infect vertebrates as intermediate hosts One host species, blood diarrhoea Neospora, toxoplamsa -> infects vertebrates without insect life stages
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Toxoplasma, neospora life cycle type
Monoxenous or limited host range with no intermediate host
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Reproduction of coccidians
1. Oocytes shed in faeces 2. Sporulate 3. After ingestion, release sporozoites that invade intestinal epithelial cells 4. Reproduce by binar y fission 5. Cell ruptures + releases merozoites which infect other cells
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Which host is sexual reprocution completed in?
definitive host
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What is an adverant host?
Dead end host
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What is a paratenic host?
Ends up in host, not ideal, but can develop in it
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What is a metazoan?
Multicellular eukaroyte
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What are the 3 groups of metazoans?
Nematodes - roundworms Platyhelminths - flatworms Arthropods
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How many animals are nematodes?
80%
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How are nematodes described?
Free-living Microscopic to over 1m Have GIT and anus Feed on host or GIT nutrients
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What are the nematode life stages?
Dioecious adults Lay eggs or are ovoviviparous Larvae hatch from eggs and moult through stages (L1, L2, L3) Have to get to L3 to infect
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What hosts do nematodes have?
Some have multiple intermediate hosts
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Where do filarial nematodes live? Do they have vectors or intermediate hosts?
Pleural + peritoneal space, heart, joints Produce larvae (microfilaria) Intermediate hosts ingest these and transmit by biting another defintiive host Insect vectors
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What are 3 groups of platyhelminths?
Cestodes (tapeworms) Trematodes (flukes) Monogeneans
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what is the structure of platyhelminths?
No body cavity, no GIT No ciruclartory or respiratory organs Flat -> allow nutrients to diffuse through Dont feed on host, only GIT nutrients
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Where is liver fluke found?
Cattle and sheep Only grow where grass is wet (embryonate in water)
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What are 2 types of arthropods?
Insects (flies, mosquito, lice) Arachnids - ticks and mites
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How are arthropods described and what do they cause?
Important vectors for other parasites Associated with production losses, hypersensitivities (flee allergy dermatitis) Tick paralysis, queensland itch, flystrike
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What things can change to cause an emerging infectious disease?
``` New host demographic Changed distribution in space and time Changes in virulence Cycle of behaviour Increase in incidence, fatality ```
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What are 6 emerging infectious diseases?
``` FMD Lumpy skin disease JEV Hendra African swine fever Highly pathogenic avian influenza ```
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What is spillover?
Infectious disease reaches new species | Rarely leads to host switch
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What are 7 steps of spillover?
1. Need reservoir species in place and time where spillover occurs 2, Need infectious agent present 3. Host needs to be shedding 4. Environmental contamination 5. Survival outside host 6. New host exposure 7. Infectability of new host (right receptor for spike protein? can innate immunity stop it?)
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What is spillback?
Spilt over to new host then back into reservoir again with new attributes
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What is a reservoir?
Co-evolves with
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What is R0?
Average number of individuals a person will infect Cant survive long term if this is 1 or less than Higher the value -> more infectious

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