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16 Cards in this Set
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Entamoeba hystolytica |
intestinal parasite pathogenic motility: pseudopod transmission: fecal-oral, ingestion of cyst infective stage: cyst hosts: human disease: Amebiasis causes bloody diarrhea wagon wheel nucleus |
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Giardia lamblia |
intestinal parasite motility: flagella transmission: fecal-oral, ingestion of cyst infective stage: cyst hosts: human and other animals disease: Giardiasis causes campers diarrhea from pets |
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Cryptosporidium parvum |
intestinal parasite nonmotile transmission: fecal-oral, ingestion of cyst infective stage: oocyst hosts: human and other animals disease: Cryptosporidiosis water born causes diarrhea seen only with acid-fast stain |
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Acanthamoeba spp. |
motility: pseudopod transmission: contact with amoeba in contaminated soil or water infective stage: cyst host: human disease: Keratitis- eye infection, Amebic encephalitis causes blindness- contacts in contaminated water or soil |
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Naegleria fowleri |
motility: pseudopod transmission: trophozoite in water enters nose infective stage: trophozoite host: human disease: Amebic meningoencephalitis, Brain-eating amoeba |
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Trichomonas vaginalis |
motility: flagella transmission: sexual intercourse infective stage: trophozoite host: human disease: trichomoniasis STD women get itchy, discharge |
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Toxoplasma gondii |
nonmotile transmission: ingestion of cyst, mother to fetus infective stage: oocyst host: D-feline, I-rodent, bird, human disease: Toxoplasmosis cats are the definitive host in under cooked meat causes blindness, deafness |
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Balantidium coli |
motility: cilia transmission: fecal-oral, ingestion of cyst infective stage: cyst host: human and other animals disease: Balantidiasis causes painful gut and bloody diarrhea very large protozoan |
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Leishmania donovani |
motility: flagella transmission: bite from sand fly infective stage: promastigote (before membrane) host: D-human, I-sand fly, disease: Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala azar), Cutaneous Leishmaniasis causes sores or inflation of intestinal organs |
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Trypanosoma spp. |
motility: flagella definitive host: human infective stage: trypomastigote include: cruzi, brucei |
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Trypanosoma brucei |
motility: flagella transmission: bite from tsetse fly infective stage: trypomastigote host: D-human, I-tsetse fly disease: African Sleeping Sickness causes central nervous system damage can die in a comma |
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Trypanosoma cruzi |
motility: flagella transmission: bite from kissing bug infective stage: trypomastigote host: D-human, I-kissing bug disease: Chagas Disease |
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Plasmodium spp. |
nonmotile transmission: bite from female Anopheles mosquito infective stage: sporozite host: D-female Anopheles mosquito, I-human disease: Malaria (200 million new cases a year) kills more children than any other organism include: sporozoite, ring stage (trophozoite), oocyst |
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Sporozoite of Plasmodium spp. |
infective stage of plasmodium spp.
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Oocyst of Plasmodium spp. |
bursts to let out sporozoites
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Ring Stage/Trophozoite of Plasmodium spp. |
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