Protozoa Flashcards by Karlee Searle

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Romaña Sign

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Periorbital inflammation in T. cruzi

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Cats (that hunt) are definitive hosts

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Nematodes

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Roundworms

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Retinochoroiditis

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Winterbottom’s sign

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T. bruceii

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Promastigotes to amastigotes in RES

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Leishmaniasis

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Splashparks

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Cryptosporidium

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Looks like cherries

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Cryptosporidium

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Cestodes

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Segmented flatworm (tapeworm)

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Can cause leprosy-like facial features

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L. tropica

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Granular, stippling, younger cells

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Plasmodium vivax

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Transmitted by pinworms

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Dientamoeba fragila

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Kala azar

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Visceral leishmaniasis L. donovani

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Imported fruits

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Cyclospora

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Resistant to chlorination but iodination works

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Giardia intestinalis

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Tachyzoite and bradyzoite

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Sandfly fever

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Leishmaniasis

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Baghdad Boils (punched in)

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Cutaneous leishmaniasis (L. tropica)

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Mosquito is definitive host

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Plasmodium (sexual)

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Beaver fever

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giardia intestinalis

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Anopheles mosquito

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Plasmodium

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Tsetse fly

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T. brucei

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Trematodes

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Non-segmented flatworms (flukes)

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Snorkelling in warm fresh water

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Meningitis, usually fatal, free living amoeba

Kissing bug

Chagas disease - T. cruzi

Hatchet cell wings

Tsetse fly - t. brucei sleeping sickness

No cyst form

Dientamoeba fragila

Symptoms range from dysenteric to nondysenteric

Entamoeba histolytica

Free living amoebae

Neglaria fowleri

Delicate ring structures

P. falciparum

Injects sporozoites, undergo replicative cycle, schizont cysts fill with merozoites, merozoites feed on heme

Plasmodium species