FREE-LIVING PATHOGENIC AMOEBA, FLAGELLATES

Question 1

3 morphologic forms of Naegleria fowleri

Answer 1

1. AMOEBOID
2. FLAGELLATE
3. CYST

Question 2

causative agent of PRMIARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS (PAM)

Answer 2

Naegleria fowleri

Question 3

INFECTIVE STAGE of N. fowleri

Answer 3

TROPHOZOITE

Question 4

DIAGNOSTIC stage of of N. fowleri

Answer 4

CYST / TROPH

Question 5

organism associated with SWIMMING IN FRESH WATER during hot summer weather

Answer 5

Naegleria fowleri

Question 6

causative agent of GRANULOMATOUS AMEBIC ENCEPHALITIS

Answer 6

Acanthamoeba spp.

Question 7

CYST: double-walled, WRINKLED CYST

Answer 7

Acanthamoeba spp.

Question 8

associated with CONTACT LENSES SOLUTIONS

Answer 8

Acanthamoeba spp.

Question 9

culture media for Acanthamoeba

Answer 9

NON-NUTRIENT AGAR PLATE with PAGE SALINE SEEDED with E. coli

Question 10

LARGEST INTESTINAL PROTOZOAN

Answer 10

Balantidium coli

or Neobalantidium coli

Question 11

the ONLY pathogenic ciliate

Answer 11

Balantidium coli

Question 12

B. coli’s pathogenicity is due to

Answer 12

HYALURONIDASE

Question 13

RESERVOIR host of B. coli

Answer 13

PIGS

Question 14

CYST: subspherical to oval, DOUBLE-WALLED WITH VISIBLE MACRONUCLEUS and 1 or 2 contractile vacuoles in the cytoplasm

Answer 14

Balantidium coli

Question 15

amoeba with THROWN BALL / ROLLING BALL MOTILITY

Answer 15

Balantidium coli

Question 16

name the clinical manifestation: ROUND BASE and WIDE NECK

Answer 16

WINE GLASS ULCERATION

Question 17

WINE GLASS ULCERATION is a clinical manifestation of what amoeba?

Answer 17

Balantidium coli