HEMOFLAGELLATES Flashcards
Kinetoplast is anterior to the nucleus
PROMASTIGOTE
Kinetoplast is near to the nucleus
EPIMASTIGOTE
Kinetoplast is posterior to the nucleus
TRYPOMASTIGOTE
The 3 under of AMASTIGOTE/LEISHMAN
PARABASAL BODY
BLEPHARAPLAST >|KINETOPLAST
NUCLEUS
4 Flagellar body types
AMASTIGOTE
PROMASTIGOTE
EPIMASTIGOTE
TRYPOMASTIGOTE
Produces amastigotes intracellularly in mammalian host and promastigotes in insect vector (Sandfly/chuchu
LEISHMANIA
Classification of Leishmanial species:
LEISHMANIA LESHMANIA DONOVANI
LEISHMANIA LEISHMANIA INFANTUM
LEISHMANIA LEISHMANIA TROPICA
LEISHMANIA LEISHMANIA MAJOR
Dry / urban oriental sore
Leishmania tropica
Moist/ rural oriental sore
Leishmania major
Chiclero ulcer/ ears
LEISHMANIA MEXICANA
- Causes old world cutaneous leishmaniasis oriental sore
- Characterized by dry lesion
LEISHMANIA TROPICA OR L. TROPICA
- Cause American muscocutaneous leishmaniasis
- Characterized by weeping lesion
L. Braziliensis or LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS
- Cause Visceral leishmaniasis fever, kala azar, Black fever,
- Human rodents
- Target organs of res
- Affects organs which include the liver, spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow
L. DONOVANI OR LEISHMANIA DONOVANI
- Causes nagana’s disease
- Animal parasite
T. BRUCEI OR TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI
East African sleeping sickness
T.B RHODESIENSE OR TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE