Chapter 12 Flashcards
Do protozoa produce asexual or sexual?
Both
Resistant stage of protozoa
Encystment
Active but fragile stage of protozoa
Trophozite
Causes malaria
Plasmodium
Associated with cats
Toxoplasma gondii
How to prevent malaria?
Bed nets to block mosquitoes.
Causes diarrhea, dehydration, nausea, vomiting, fever. Epidemic in Milwaukee
Cryptosporidium parvum
How is amoeba hisolytica transmited?
Fecal-oral route.
Amoeba that feeds on RBCs.
Amoeba hisolytica
Amoeba with 5 nucleus in cyst
Entamoeba coli
Causes African sleeping disease
Trypanosoma
Transmitted by the bite of sand fliesn
Leishmania
Severe form of leishmania damages organs. 100% fatal.
Visceral Leishmania
Also called “Kala azar”
Transmitted by the bite of sand flies
Leishmania
Kinds of worms (2)
Flat worms
Round worms
Severe form of leishmania damages organs. 100% fatal.
Visceral Leishmania
Causes trichomoniasis
Trichomona vaginalis
Kinds of worms
Flat worms
Round worms
Eggs with lid.
Operculated eggs
Flat worm that produces sexually. Male larger. Female smaller. Cover them selves with human tissue and immune system does not see them. It is the high number of eggs that cause damage.
Schistosoma
Infectious stage for schistoma flat worms?
Larva
Eggs have a pick like protrusion
Schistoma
Sections of worm have own testis and ovaries.
Tape worm
Known as round worms
Phylum nematode