Identification 2

Question 1

Include the trypanosomes and leishmanias

May infect the blood, lymph nodes, muscles and RES

Answer 1

Hemoflagellates

Question 2

Oriental sore
Aleppo button
Baghdad or Jericho boil
Dry lesions

Answer 2

Leishmania tropica

Question 3

Old world cutaneous leishmaniasis

Answer 3

Leishmania tropica

Question 4

American mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Espundia
Bubas

Patho - Wheeping lesions

Answer 4

Leishmania braziliensis

Question 5

Visceral leishmaniasis
Kala-azar (black fever)
Dum-dum fever

Answer 5

Leishmania donovani

Question 6

African sleeping sickness

• East Africa:
• West Africa:

Answer 6

T. rhodesiense

T. gambiense

Question 7

Vector of trypanosoma

Answer 7

Glossina (tsetse fly)

Question 8

American trypanosomiasis

Chagas’ disease

Answer 8

Trypanosoma cruzi

Question 9

Triatomid bugs
Kissing bugs
Reduviid bugs
Assasin bugs
Cone nose bugs

Triatoma rubrofasciata = Philippines

Answer 9

Trypanosoma cruzi vectors

Question 10

Romaña’s sign Unilateral swelling of eye lids

Answer 10

Trypanosoma cruzi

Question 11

The only significant ciliate
Host: Pigs
Largest parasitic protozoan
MOT: ingestion of cysts (from swine

Answer 11

Balantidium coli

Question 12

Blackwater fever: intravascular hemolysis + hemoglobinuria

Answer 12

P. falciparum

Question 13

Schuffner’s dots (condensed Hgb)

Answer 13

Plasmodium vivax

Question 14

Ziemann’s dots

Schizont arranged around central pigment (rosette/daisy head/fruit pie

Answer 14

Plasmodium malariae

Question 15

Maurer’s dots (Stephen Christopher/Cuneiform dots)

Answer 15

Plasmodium falciparum

Question 16

Crescent/sausage/banana-shaped gametocyte

Answer 16

Plasmodium falciparum

Question 17

Single compact ring

Schuffner’s dots/James’ dots

Answer 17

Plasmodium ovale

Question 18

“Maltese-cross” formation

Answer 18

Babesia microti

Question 19

MOT
Ixodes tick bite
Blood transfusion

Answer 19

Babesia microti

Question 20

Babesia microti

Answer 20

Babesia bigemia