Apicomplexans- Plasmodium Flashcards
Class of Plasmodium
Class Sporozia
Common name for Plasmodium ?
Malaria
Subclass of Plasmodium
Coccidia
Actively dividing, multinucleated, parasite from hepatocytes
Hepatic schizont
Multinucleated stage in a RBC from asexual reproduction of trophozoite
Erythrocytic schizont
Infective schizont components
Merozoite
Sexual form of the parasite from trophozoites in the RBC
Gametocytes
Morphological form which develops in the mosquito salivary gland
Sporozoite
Asexual reproduction which hepatocytes produce schizonts
Exoerythrocytic cycle
Asexual cycle where trophozoites form into schizonts.
Intraerythrocytic cycle
Plasmodium asexual reproduction
Multiple fission
Where does zygotes mature into ookinites ?
Mosquito stomach
Zygotes which elongate and become motile
Ookinites
Where does ookinites mature to oocytes
Midgut
What part of the mosquito contains sporozoites?
Salivary gland
Malignant malaria
Plasmodium falciparum
Infects all RBC age
Pasmodium falciparum
Tertian malaria
Plasmodium vivax
Benign tertian malaria
Plasmodium ovale
Malaria that affects only young RBCs
Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale
Quartan malaria
Plasmodium malariae
Affects only old RBCs
Plasmodium malariae
Dormant stage in the liver
Hypnozoites
Duration of P.malariae life cycle
72 hours
Duration of P.vivax life cycle
48 hours
Duration of P.falciparum life cycle
48 hours
Early developmental stage of the asexual erythrocytic parasite
Ring: immature trophozoite
During ring stage , what color is the chromatin?
Red
During Rimg stage what color is the cytoplasm ?
Blue
Young trophozoite
Ring
Drug used to kill the liver-phase organisms of malaria
Primaquine
Renewal of parasitemia
Recrudescence
Apparent elimination of the parasite
Relapse
Sausage shaped gametocyte
Plasmodium falciparum
Maurer’s cleft
Plasmodium falciparum
Delicate appearance of the parasite in its ring form
Plasmodium falciparum