11 - Ciliates Flashcards
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(The ciliates)
- live how relative to host?
- two distinct nuclei
macro involved in what?
micro involved in what?
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- most free living, other commensals, few parasitic
- reproduction
vegetative functions

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(Balantidium Coli)
- primarily parasite of what?
- also found in what?
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- swine
- primates (serious when in them)

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- coconfused with what in humans?

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- entamoeba histolytica

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PIG HANDLERS ARE AT RIsK

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(Buxtonella Sulcata)
- a ciliate occasionally seen where?
- often corrected with what?
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- in cattle fecals
- change in diet

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(Ichthyophthirius multifiliis)
- disease of what?
- specific for host?
- widespread in nature, but explodes where?
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(Ichthyophthirius multifiliis)
- trophozoites are very large and are called what?
- live in galleries withing what?
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- trophonts
- withing skin (the white spots)

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(Ichthyophthirius multifiliis)
- The cyst then detaches and is free living in environment
- develops into what?
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- tomites (theronts)

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(Ichthyophthirius multifiliis)

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(Ichthyophthirius multifiliis)
- theronts do what?
- trophonts feed on what?
- damage to gill filaments - causes what?
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(Phyla Microspora and Myxozoa)
- are they apicomplexans?
- are they related to each other?
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- no
- no

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(Microsporidians)
- spore producing protozoan which ahve a what?
- spores have a unique what?
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- vesicular nucleus
- coiled extrusion apparatus

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- distribution is worldwide
- what are the primary hosts?
- is infection very pathogenic?

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- rabbits
- no - but can be fatal in immunocomporomised

18
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- differentiate from what?
- treatment?

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- rabies and toxoplasmosis (larger)
- really isn’t any
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(Nosema apis)
- found in what?
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- bees