Test 1

Question 1

Entamoeba histolytica hosts

Answer 1

Primates

You, Dog, Cat, Pig, Rat, Cattle

Question 2

Entamoeba histolytica transmission route

Answer 2

Fecal/Oral

Question 3

Entamoeba diagnosis

Answer 3

ZnSO4 salt solution (cysts)

Fecal smear (Schaudinn’s fluid & Heidenhain iron)

Aspirates/Scrapings from protoscopy

IHA, IFA, ELISA, Gel

Question 4

Entamoeba histolytica

Always fix samples in

Answer 4

Formalin

Question 5

How many nuclei?

Entamoeba histolytica

Entamoeba hartmanni

Entamoeba coli

Answer 5

histolytica - 4

hartmanni - 4

coli - 8

Question 6

How do you distinguish between Entamoeba histolytica and coli?

Answer 6

Number of nuclei

Question 7

Amoeba that gets in your eyeballs

Answer 7

Acanthamoeba

Question 8

Naegleria fowleri hosts

Answer 8

Humans, Dogs, Sheep

Question 9

You should probably wear nose plugs if you go swimming in very warm lake water to avoid this amoeba Monson

Answer 9

Naegleri fowleri

Question 10

Mucosoflagellates

Answer 10

Trichomonads

Hisomonads

Giardia

Question 11

Hemoflagellates

Answer 11

Trypanosomes

Leishmanias

Question 12

Name the hosts

Tritrichomonas foetus

Trichomonas gallinae

Trichomonas vaginalis

Tetratrichomonas gallinarum

Answer 12

Tritrichomonas foetus - Cattle, Dogs

Trichomonas gallinae - Pigeons

Trichomonas vaginalis - Humans

Tetratrichomonas gallinarum - Galliform birds