Free living Amoeba Flashcards
Give 3 Free – Living Amoeba
Naegleria
Acanthamoeba
Hartmanella
Common name of Naegleria fowleri
Brain Eating Amoeba
Lab dx of Naegleria fowleri
amoeba in CSF / biopsy of specimen
Does not survive in _______
sea water
Can be acquired from contaminated contact lens care solution.
Acanthamoeba spp.
Acanthamoeba spp cultured in?
Blood Agar Plate (BAP)
give one species in Acanthamoeba
Castallani
pseudopods known as
acanthopodia
-Lab dx :Acanthamoeba
amoeba in CSF / skin lesion
–it can be differentiated from
Acanthamoeba by the presence of many nucleoli on its nucleus
Balamuthia mandrillaris
usually recovered from hospital
Hartmanella spp
vehicle for Hartmanella
L.pneumophila
Transmission may occur
by pinworm ova
Dientamoeba fragilis
coinfection with give atleast 1
Ascaris lumbricoides
Pathogenesis Dientamoeba fragilis
irritable bowel syndrome
It is have 2-4 nuclei
Enteromonas hominis
It is harmless commensal
Embadomonas intestinalis
characteristic of Embadomonas intestinalis
clef – like cystosome
How many nucleus that found in Embadomonas intestinalis
One
It is a Large spherical nucleus
Chilomastix mesnili
shaped cyst of Chilomastix mesnili
American lemon
characteristic of Chilomastix mesnili
shepherd’s crook fibrils
the only bilaterally symmetrical protozoan
Giardia lamblia
Give Atleast one Other names of Giardia lamblia
Lamblia intestinalis