Hemoflagellates Flashcards
Hemoflagellates include the _____ and ____
leishmaniasis,trypanosomes
Hemoflagellates may infect the?
Blood
lymph nodes
muscles
reticuloendothelial system
It multiply in blood and tissue of humans
Hemoflagellates
In hemoflagellates, all species require an ______ intermediate host
arthropod
What are the basic structures of hemoflagellates?
Single flagellum, a nucleus and a kinetoplast
Blepharoplast and parabasal body
Axial filament/axoneme
What are the stages of Hemoflagellates?
Amastigote
Promastigote
Epimastigote
Trypomastigote
Size of amastigote?
5-3um
Appearance of Amastigote?
Round to oval
Features of Amastigote?
Kinetoplast present
Size of Primastigote?
9-15um
Appearance of Promastigote?
Long and Slender
It has a kinetoplast located in anterior end
Promastigote
It has a kinetoplast located anterior to the nucleus
Epimastigote
It has a kinetoplast located in the posterior end
Trypomastigote
It has an appearance of C,S,U seen in stained blood films
Trypomastigote
It has an undulating membrane extending half of the body length
Epimastigote
It has an undulating membrane extending entire body length
Trypomastigote
What are the stages that are extending from anterior end?
Promastigote
Epimastigote
Trypomastigote
It is known as old world cutaneous leishmaniasis
Leishmania tropica
Leishmania tropica locally known as:
Oriental sore
Delhi boil
Aleppo button
Forest yaws
Baghdad/Jericho boil
It is known as new world cutaneous leishmaniasis?
Leishmania braziliensis
It is american or mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Leishmania braziliensis
It is known as visceral leishmaniasis
Leishmania donovani
Clinical diseases of Leishmania braziliensis
Espundia
Uta
Chiclero ulcer
Nasopharyngeal
Leishmaniasis
It has an habitat that endothelial cells of the infected skin, capillaries, and within the cytoplasm of large phagocytic monocytes
Leishmania tropica
It has an habitat that mucocutaneous junctions, particularly the nasal septum, mouth and pharynx
Leishmania braziliensis
It has an habitat that Endothelial cells of the reticuloendothelial system: liver, spleen, bone marrow, and visceral lymph nodes, and fixed tissue macrophages
Leishmania donovani
The Lab diagnosis should be skin scrapings (Wright’s or Giemsa stain)
Leishmania tropica
It has a lab diagnosis of Impression smears or tissue sections prepared from active lesions
Leishmania tropica