ACTIVITY 1 (TABLES) Flashcards
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Obligatory Parasite
Description: A parasite that is highly dependent on the host. If the host dies, then the parasite dies.
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Plasmodium falciparum
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Facultative Parasite
Description: A parasite that is not quite dependent to host. Can be parasitic, living inside the host or free living
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Spurious parasite
Description: a parasite of another animal which pass through the human body without further development or without causing any injury or damage
Example (Scientific or Common Name): Capillaria hepatica
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Intermittent Parasite
Description: A parasite that only feed on host by intervals then leaves after
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Mosquito
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Ectoparasite
Description: A parasite that lives in the superficial or outside of the host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Lice, Ticks
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Endoparasite
Description: A parasite that lives inside the host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Hematozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that feeds or invades in blood, like red blood cells
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Plasmodium falciparum
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Cytozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that invades on cells
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Plasmodium falciparum
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Coelozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that invades on body cavities
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Acanthocheilonema perstans
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Enterozoic Parasite
Description: A parasite that invades in the “lumen” or small intestine
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Monoxenous Parasite
Description: A parasite that has only one host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Heteroxenous Parasite
Description: A parasite that has multiple host
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Leishmania
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Wandering/Aberrant Parasite
Description: One which is never transmitted from man to man and which develops abnormally in man
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Taenia solium
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Monoecious Parasite
Description: A parasite that has both male and female reproductive organs, hermaphrodite
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Taenia saginata
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Dioecious Parasite
Description: A parasite that has both male and female species
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Intermediate Host
Description: A host that is not the final host, only the larval stage of parasites
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
A pig infected with Trichinella spiralis
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Definitive Host
Description: The final host, wherein parasites reproduce there sexually
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Humans
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Paratenic Host
Description: A host that house parasite which does not develop further
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Fish infected with D. latum
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Reservoir host
Description: A host that house other parasite other than its own parasite
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Roof rat with infected parasite (Oriental rat flea)
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Accidental Host
Description: A host that have accidentally ingested or inhaled a parasite that is not normally its parasite
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
humans with fish parasites
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Biological Vector
Description: Essential in the life cycle of a parasite
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
Mosquito
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Mechanical Vector
Description: Non-essential, and is not important to the life cycle of a parasite
Example (Scientific or Common Name):
cysts carried over to food by legs of vectors
What is the difference between a direct and indirect life cycle?
In a direct life cycle, the parasite can either infect the same host that it reproduces in or pass on to another host in the same species. In contrast, in an indirect life cycle, the parasite requires a definitive host, where it reproduces sexually, and one or more intermediate hosts, where it undergoes asexual reproduction, to complete its life cycle.
Give 5 equipment and their function needed in any Parasitology studies (MiCe PIF)
- Microscope
- Centrifuge
- PCR machine
- Incubator
- Fecal Flotation device
Microscope
used to magnify the size of parasites, allowing for identification and study of their morphology and characteristics.
Centrifuge
used to separate different components of a sample, allowing for concentration of parasites and detection of their eggs or larvae.
Incubator
used to create a controlled environment for parasites to grow and reproduce in the laboratory.
PCR machine
used to amplify DNA sequences from parasites for detection and identification.
Fecal flotation device
used to separate parasite eggs or larvae from fecal material, allowing for their identification and detection.
Give 5 materials and their function needed in any Parasitology studies (PFGGS)
- Petri dish
- Forceps
- Glass slide
- Gloves
- Swabs
Petri dish
- used to culture and observe parasites in the laboratory.
Forceps
- used to handle and manipulate parasites and their specimens without damaging them.
Glass slide
- used to put specimen and view it on a microscope
Gloves
- protection to the hands
Swabs
- use to smear or swab a specimen
