final lab practical Flashcards
kingdom, name, etiology, treatment, notes
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Brown dog tick
Etiology: Parasite, feed on blood from animals
Treatment: Good personal hygiene and prevention with
clothes and insect repellant
Notes: Can transmit RMSF in humans
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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Kingdom: Monera
Common name: Gonorrhoeae, the clapp - French
derivative of “clapoir” meaning brothel
Etiology: STD, direct contact
Treatment: Penicillin or Ceftriaxone
Notes: Foul smelling purulent discharge
Taenia solium
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Pork tapeworm
Etiology: Consuming uncooked pork, ingesting gravid
proglottids
Treatment: Praziquantel (PZQ)
Notes: Size, 2m – 30m
Bacterial flagella
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Kingdom: Monera
Common name: Flagella (this arrangement is amphitrichous)
Etiology: N/A
Treatment: N/A
Notes: 4 types as follows… monotrichous (single flagellum at one end), lophotrichous (multiple flagella at one end), amphitrichous (single flagellum at each end), and peritrichous (flagella distributed across the entire cell surface)
Schistosoma japonicum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Human blood fluke: origin China
Disease it causes: Schistosomiasis
Treatment: Praziquantel (a Quinoline derivative)
Morphology: eggs are released in feces, they form miracidia which then infects a snail where sporocysts forms during asexual reproduction.
Notes: Then circaria are shed into the environment. This penetrates the host. These migrate to the mesenteric veins where they mate and lay eggs. Then the process starts over.
Plasmodium vivax
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Kingdom: Protista
Common name: N/A
Etiology: Causes malaria
Treatment: Chloroquine
Notes: Carried by female anopheles mosquito.
Apicomplexan.
Pediculus humanus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Human body louse
Etiology: Direct contact with hair, clothing, or bedding
Treatment: Good personal hygiene, Permethrin
Notes: Common human parasite
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
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kingdom: Protista
Common name: Trypanosoma
Etiology: African Sleeping Sickness
Treatment: No cure, only prevention
Notes: x2 hosts – Tsetse fly & humans
Staphylococcus aureus
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Kingdom: Monera
Common name: Staph
Etiology: Direct contact through humans and pets
Treatment: Vancomycin or Clindamycin
Notes: MRSA and VRSA, resistant strains
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
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Kingdom: Monera
Common name: Diphtheria
Etiology: Spread by direct contact or droplet transmission
Treatment: DPT vaccine, Diphtheria toxoid vaccine
Notes: Streptobacilli
Diphyllobothrium latum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Broad fish tape worm
Etiology: Complicated life – cycle with or more intermediate
hosts
Treatment: Praziquantel (PZQ)
Notes: Scolex
Entamoeba histolytica
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Kingdom: Protista
Common name: Amoeba
Etiology: Amoebic dysentary, infection of intestines with
Entamoeba histolytica
Treatment: Metronidazole or Paramomycin
Notes: Both drugs must be used
Anabaena
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Kingdom: Monera
Common name: Cyanobacteria
Etiology: N/A
Treatment: N/A
Notes: Responsible for the formation of the early earth’s
atmosphere; makes O2
Bacillus anthracis
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Kingdom: Monera
Common name: Anthrax
Etiology: Direct contact with endospores or live bacteria
Treatment: B – lactamase antibiotics like Penicillin
Notes: 3 types – Cutaneous, Pulmonary, and Gastrointestinal
Anopheles mosquito
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Mosquito
Etiology: carries plasmodium vivax – the causative agent of
malaria
Treatment: Insecticides, prevention
Notes: Heartguard for dogs (Ivermectin)
Ancylostoma caninum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Dog hookworm
Etiology: Penetrate skin, moves from circulatory to
digestive system
Treatment: Albendazole
Notes: Diagnosis is hookworm eggs in stool
Rhizopus sporangium
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Kingdom: Fungi
Common name: Black bread mold
Etiology: N/A
Treatment: N/A
Notes: Found of bread and fruit
Tapeworm proglottids
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Tapeworm
Etiology: Various fecal / oral
Treatment: Praziquantel – antihelminthic
Notes: Proglottids are shed in feces
Xenopsylla cheopis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Flea
Etiology: Direct contact (bite), transmits Bubonic plague,
Rickettsia typhi
Treatment: Permethrin lufenuron
Notes: Can become settled in hair in 10 minutes
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Kingdom: Fungi
Common Name: Bakers Yeast
Etiology: N/A
Treatment: N/A
Notes: Bread, beer, and crackers are products
Paramecium caudatum
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Kingdom: Protista
Common Name: Paramecium
Etiology: N/A
Treatment: N/A
Notes: Paramecium eat bacteria
Enterobius vermicularis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Human pin worm
Etiology: Direct human transmission, fecal – oral route
Treatment: Albendazole
Notes: Symptoms – perianal itching
Echinococcus granulosus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Common name: Hydatid worm (Dog Tape worm)
Etiology: Fecal – oral route between sheep’s and dogs
Treatment: Surgery to remove cysts
Notes: Hydatid cysts form from this tapeworm.
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Kingdom: Monera
Common name: Strep
Etiology: Bacterial meningitis, also pneumonia spreads via
respiratory droplets
Treatment: Pneumonococcal vaccine
Notes: α(Alpha) – hemolytic
Clostridium tetani
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Kingdom: Monera
Common Name: Tetanus
Etiology: Enters through wound in the skin (i.e. rusty nail)
Treatment: Tetanus vaccine
Notes: Death through permanent contraction of muscles.
