PROTOZOANS (amoeba)) Flashcards
(14 cards)
what are the 8 amoeba’s
a. Entamoeba histolytica
b. Entamoeba coli
c. Entamoeba gingivalis
d. Entamoeba polecki
e. Entamoeba moshkovskii
f. Entamoeba nana
g. Iodamoeba butschlii
h. Dientamoeba fragilis
what are the 9 flagellate’s
a. Giardia lamblia
b. Chilomastix mesnili
c. Retortamonas intestinalis
d. Enteromonas hominis
e. Trichomonas tenax
f. Trichomonas hominis
g. Trichomonas vaginalis
h. Leishmania sp.
i. Trypanosoma sp.
what is 1 ciliates
Balantidium coli
it referred as “small race”
Entamoeba hartmanni
most invasive of the Entamoeba parasites
Entamoeba histolytica
unicellular organisms and the lowest form of animal life
Protozoa
a pseudopoforming non-flagellated protozoan parasite
Entamoeba histolytica
definitive host for Entamoeba
Humans
what are the 7 intestinal amoeba’s
Entamoeba histolytica
Entamoeba dispar
Entamoeba coli
Entamoeba hartmanni
Endolimax nana
Iodamoeba bütschlii
Entamoeba polecki
magkambal sa intestinal amoeba
histolytica and dispar
how can distinguished dispar and histolytica
PCR, molecular techniques after culture of the trophozoite.
3 Virulence Factors (Amoeba)
Gal Nac Lectin
Amebapores
Cysteine proteinases
third most important parasitic disease
amebiasis
it is pathogenic
E. histolytica
