Amoebas

Question 1

Resembles E. Histolytica except in size?

Answer 1

E. Hartmanni

Question 2

This is a commensal amoeba with 8 nucleus and coarse chromatin in cyst stage?

Answer 2

E. Coli

Question 3

It is a cosmopolitan parasite of monkey and hogs ?

Answer 3

E.polecki

Question 4

With blunt hyaline pseudopodia and smallest amoeba?

Answer 4

E. Nana

Question 5

Cyst contains large vacuole?

Answer 5

I.butschlii

Question 6

Only in trophoZoite stage found in the mouth?

Answer 6

E.gingivalis

Question 7

Inhabitant of human intestinal tract, regarded as non pathogenic yeast?

Answer 7

Blastocystis hominis

Question 8

Give the three free living pathogenic amoeba?

Answer 8

1. Balamuthia
   2.Naegleria fowleri
   3Acanthamoeba spp.

Question 9

This amoeba has 2 trophoZoite forms, the ameboid and flagellar. And is the causative agent of amoebic meningoencephalitis?

Answer 9

Naegleria fowleri

Question 10

Trophozoites of these amoeba have irregular appearance with spine like pseudopodia, causative agent of granulomatous meningoencephalitis?

Answer 10

Acanthamoeba spp.

Question 11

Unlike most amoeba, the nuclear envelope breaks down during mitosis . Have lamellelipodia or subpseudopodia

Answer 11

Balamuthia

Question 12

A patient complained diarrhea, flatulence crampings and laboratory findings include cyst with four nucleus and ingested red blood cell?

Answer 12

E. Histolytica.