INTESTINAL FLAGELLATES Flashcards
Giardia intestinalis
Giardia lamblia
Giardia duodenalis
Giardia lamblia
Cercomonas intestinalis
Giardia lamblia
Megastoma enterica
Giardia lamblia
Lamblia intestinalis
Giardia lamblia
Giardia enterica
Giardia lamblia
Shepherd’s crook
Chilomastix mesnili
Chilomastix hominis
Chilomastix mesnili
Nonpathogenic
Chilomastix mesnili
The only pathogenic intestinal flagellates found only in man
Giardia lamblia
▪ Harmless commensal which is worldwide in distribution
Chilomastix mesnili
▪ More prevalent in warm than cooler climate
Chilomastix mesnili
Duodenal area of small intestine and gall bladder
Giardia lamblia
cecal region of the large intestine
Chilomastix mesnili
➢ Ingestion of cyst usually through contaminated water
Giardia lamblia
➢ Oral-anal route
Giardia lamblia
Ingestion of cyst
Chilomastix mesnili
Giardia lamblia (Invasive stage)
Trophozoite
Giardia lamblia (Infective stage)
Cyst
- Trophozoite ✓ Pear-shaped/Pyriform
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ Rounded anteriorly and pointed posteriorly
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ Resembles “old man in eye glasses” or “tennis racket” appearance
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ Bilaterally symmetrical: two media bodies
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ Measures 9.5 – 21 um by 5 – 10 um
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ With large sucking discs on the ventral, concave side and convex on the dorsal side, occupying about ¾ of the flat ventral surface
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ Presence of 2 nuclei with large, central
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ 2 axostyles, 2 blepharoplast, 2 deeply staining bars
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ 4 pairs of flagella: one pair of laterally crossed flagella, one pair of central flagella, a lateral pair of uncrossed flagella, and one pair of posterior flagella
Giardia lamblia
❖ Motility: jerky falling leaf/kite-like/spinning/flip-flop motility
Giardia lamblia
- Cyst ✓ Ovoid/ellipsoidal; measures 8 – 12 um by 6 – 10 um
Giardia lamblia
- Cyst ✓ 2 – 4 nuclei at anterior end
Giardia lamblia
- Cyst ✓ Thick double wall (“double-walled cyst”); cytoplasm shrinks away from the cell wall
Giardia lamblia
- Cyst ✓ Axostyle and fibrillar remnants of locomotory apparatus present
Giardia lamblia
- Trophozoite ✓ Asymmetrical pearshaped (due to the cytostome) measuring about 6 – 20 um
Chilomastix mesnili
- Trophozoite ✓ Broad anterior, tapering toward the posterior end
Chilomastix mesnili
- Trophozoite ✓ Spiral groove extending through the middle portion of the body
Chilomastix mesnili
- Trophozoite ✓ 3 pairs of flagella and a more delicate one within the prominent cytostome
Chilomastix mesnili
- Trophozoite ✓ Cytoplasm is delicately granular with numerous food vacuoles
Chilomastix mesnili
- Trophozoite ✓ 1 nucleus with central karyosome
Chilomastix mesnili
- Trophozoite ✓ Motility: Boring or spiral forward movement, corkscrew, clockwise, twisting motility
Chilomastix mesnili
- Cyst ✓ 7 – 10 um; thick walled
Chilomastix mesnili
- Cyst ✓ Pear- or lemon-shaped, rounded at one end and conical at the other end with knob-like protuberance projection
Chilomastix mesnili
- Cyst ✓ 1 spherical nucleus with central karyosome
Chilomastix mesnili
Giardiasis or Flagellate diarrhea (also known as Traveller’s diarrhea)
Giardia lamblia
➢ Majority of persons infected are asymptomatic or is manifested as a self-limiting acute onset diarrhea, usually associated with nausea, anorexia, and crampy abdominal pain
Giardia lamblia