Immunological System Pathology 1 - Parasitology

Question 1

What organism causes amoebic dysentery?

Can this disease manifest as bloody diarrhea?

Answer 1

Entamoeba histolytica; yes

Question 2

What organism causes beaver fever?

Can this disease manifest as bloody diarrhea?

Answer 2

Giardia lamblia; no

Question 3

What parasite has as its definitive host the cat?

Answer 3

Toxoplasma gondii

Question 4

Pneumocystis carinii overgrows in what kind of patient?

Answer 4

Immunocompromised

Question 5

Who is most at risk for serious complications if infected by Toxoplasma gondii?

Answer 5

The fetus of a pregnant woman

Question 6

Which parasite interferes with fat absorption?

Answer 6

Giardia lamblia

Question 7

What is the vector for African sleeping sickness?

Answer 7

Tsetse fly

Question 8

What organism causes African sleeping sickness?

Answer 8

Trypanosoma brucei

Question 9

What is the common name for Ascaris lumbricoides?

Answer 9

Human roundworm

Question 10

What is the common name for Necator americanus?

Answer 10

Hookworm

Question 11

What parasite causes spoon nails, anemia and stunted growth?

Answer 11

Hookworm

Question 12

What parasite can be contracted from pork or bear meat?

Answer 12

Trichinella spiralis

Question 13

How is filariasis transmitted?

Answer 13

Mosquito

Question 14

What causes elephantiasis?

Answer 14

The parasitic worms Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. Timori; non-filarial disease in Eastern Africa is though due to chronic contact with irritant soils.

Question 15

Schistosoma spp. are associated with what reservoir?

Answer 15

Snails

Question 16

Taenia spp are associated with which animals?

Answer 16

Pigs, cows

Question 17

What kind of parasite is Taenia spp?

Answer 17

Beef or pork tapeworm

Question 18

Diphyllobothrium latum is what kind of parasite?

Answer 18

Fish tapeworm

Question 19

What kind of parasite is a schistosome?

Answer 19

A blood fluke

Question 20

Does Toxoplasma gondii form cysts?

Answer 20

Yes