Hemoflagellates

Question 1

Is a West African sleeping sickness

Answer 1

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Central and West Africa

Question 2

Is an East African sleeping sickness

Answer 2

Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

East Africa

Question 3

How are Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense transmitted?

Answer 3

Through a vector, tsetse fly

Glossina specie

Question 4

Is called the Chaga’s diseases or American trypanomiasis

Answer 4

Trypanosoma cruzi

Central and South Africa

Question 5

How is Trypanosoma cruzi transmitted or acquired?

Answer 5

Triatoma or reduviid bugs

Kissing bugs or Assassin bugs

Question 6

Is called the Oriental Sore or Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Answer 6

Leishmania tropica

Asia Minor, Middle, and South West Asia, North Africa, Mediterranean, Europe, and Central America

Question 7

How is Leishmania tropica transmitted or acquired?

Answer 7

Vector, sandfly

Phlebotomous specie

Question 8

Is called Espundia or mucotaneous leishmaniasis and Chiclero’s ulccer or New World Cutaneous Leishamaniasis

Answer 8

Leishmania braziliensis

Central and South America

Question 9

Is called Kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis

Answer 9

Leishmania donovani

India, China, Soviet Union, Mediterranean, East and North Africa, Caspian Littoral, Arab Peninsula, Persian Gulf

Question 10

How is Leishmania donovani transmitted or acquired?

Answer 10

Vector, sandfly

Phlebotomous specie

Question 11

What are the stages of development of hemoflagellates?

Answer 11

1. Amastigote or Leishmania form
2. Promastigote or Leptomonas form
3. Epimastigote or Crithidia
4. Trypomastigote or Trypanosoma