Quiz 1 Flashcards
(33 cards)
What is the number 1 protozoic disease?
Malaria
Ciliates have a very large mouth called a _______
cytosome
Ciliates have two types of nucleus
- Micronucleus-diploid
2. Polyploid-macronucleus
This is needed for ciliates to live
macronucleus
Balantidium coli uses what type of life cycle
Direct life cycle
-fecal oral route
the infective stage in Balantidium coli is what
cyst stage-must be ingested
if trophs become invasice in Balantidium coli then what can happen?
form a flask shaped ulcer in subucosa
- cant get into muscle
- this is how secondary infections form
when blood is present in mucous
diarrhea is a lower level of this
dysentery
-this means secondary infection
DOC for Balantidium coli
Tetracycline
only in freshwater fish worldwide
Ichyopthyrus multifiliis
infective stage of Ichyopthyrus multifiliis
theront
-tiny and doesnt feed so it needs to find fish.
white spot disease
Ichyopthyrus multifiliis
when the skin tries to grow and cover the troph
Hyperplasia
How to treat ICK
food fish- copper sulfate
pet fish-formalin
Have one type of nucleus and use Pseudopods for locomotion
-asexual reproduction
Amoebae
The only amoebae that causes hisology
Enatamoeba histolytica
-“Amoebiasis”
deadly form of Enatamoeba histolytica
Amoebic Dysentery
4 nuclei in cyst
may have chromatoidal bar
Enatamoeba histolytica
Enatamoeba histolytica can cause what if it gets to the liver?
Hepatic Amoebiasis (extraintestinal infection)
Second species of Enatamoeba histolytica
Entamoeba dispar
DOC for Enatamoeba histolytica
Metronidazole
Indicator species
1) Entamoeba coli
2) Endolimax nana
3) Iodamoeba butschili
4) Enatomoeba ginivalis
Have up to 8 nuclei
Entamoeba coli
Have a Glycogen vacuole
Iodamoeba butchli
