Intestinal & Tissue Coccidian + Babesia (nd onting malaria quiz) Flashcards
What do you call the group of microscoping, spore-forming, unicellular obligate intracellular protozoans?
Coccidians
The intestinal sporozoa of man includes what species?
- Isosospora belli (Cystoisospora belli)
- Cryptosporidium parvum
- Cyclospora cayetanensis
+ 2 species of Sarcocystis
The sporozoans are part of Phylum what?
Phylum Apicomplexa
____ is a parasite of epithelial cells of the intestine, in which it may undergo repeated asexual development, with consequent destruction of the surface layer of considerable portions of the intestine.
Isospora
Isospora parasites’ sexual stages occur and culminate in ____ and passed in ____.
oocysts; feces
C. belli cycle
The immature oocysts released from the intestinal wall and passed in feces undergo development in stool. With that, the spherical mass of undivided protoplasm contained inside the immature oocyst divides to form how many sporoblasts?
2 sporoblasts
C. belli cycle
The two sporoblasts develop heavy cyst walls and become known as what?
sporocysts
C. belli cycle
Within each sporocyst, how many curved, sausage-shaped sporozoites develop?
4
C. belli cycle
The whole process of maturation from the protoplasm-containing immature oocyst to containing fully developed sporocysts and sporozoites takes ____ to ____ days
4 to 5 days
C. belli cycle
After mature oocysts w/ sporozoites are ingested by human hosts, sporocysts will excyst and undergo schizogony where?
small intestine
they will undergo schizogony in the epithelial cells
C. belli cycle
____ results in the development of unsporulated/immature oocysts that are excreted in the stool.
Fertilization
C. belli cycle
Sporulation usually occurs within how many hours after passage w/ stool?
48 hours
Infective stage of C. belli?
Mature (Sporulated) oocysts
w/ 2 sporocysts & 4 sporozoite in each sporocyst
Diagnostic stage of Cytoisospora belli?
Unsporulated oocyst
MOT of C. belli
Ingestion of contaminated food and water
= fecal-oral possible too
C. belli may be seen in stool through DFS and Conc. techniques. In direct microscopic examination, the smears must be stained w/ what?
Iodine
iodine-stained smear
this is ‘cause oocysts are transparent and difficult to recognize if smears are unstained
C. belli may be seen in stool through DFS and Conc. techniques. What concentration technique/s may be used?
- ZnSO4
- Sheather’s sugar flotation
What is the most sensitive and accurate method for detecting C. belli oocysts in feces?
Sheather’s sugar flotation technique
What test may be used to recover C. belli oocysts in the small intestine?
Entero-test
What stain/s may u use to detect C. belli in stool?
- Kinyoun method
- Modified acid-fast technique
& iodine too
Acid-fast stains (kinyoun is acid-fast too) in general will produce oocysts that are red in color (sporoblasts ang red)
Blood examination during Cytoisospora belli infections will reveal what blood condition?
eosinophilia
Peripheral Eosinophilia
This accounts why Charcot-Leyden crystals are present in stool too
Drug of choice for C. belli infections
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
What are the two species wherein human sarcocystosis is attributed to?
- Sarcocystis suihominis
- Sarcocystis hominis or Sarcocystis bovihominis
Humans serve as the ____ host for both species of Sarcocystis but occasionally, humans can act as intermediate hosts
definitive
Sarcocystis life cycle
Thin-walled oocyst or individual sporocyst is digested by intermediate host and ruptures to release what?
sporozoites
Sarcocystis life cycle
The endothelial-cell-invasion of the blood vessels produces what generation schizont?
First generation schizont
w/ merozoites
Sarcocystis life cycle
The capillary invasion of the blood vessels produces what generation schizont?
Second generation
w/ merozoites
Sarcocystis life cycle
Once secondary merozoites are released, hey invade muscle cells and transform into what containing what?
Sarcocyst containing Bradyzoites
Sarcocystis life cycle
What stage can be found in an undercooked meat and are released in the small intestine once the cyst ruptures?
Sarcocyst w/ Bradyzoites
What is the infective stage of Sarcocystis to the intermediate host?
Thin walled oocyst or sporocysts
What is the infective stage of Sarcocystis to the definitive host (humans)?
Bradyzoites in a Sarcocyst
Diagnostic stage of Sarcocystis?
Thin-walled sporulated oocyst or sporocyst
MOT of Sarcocystis
ingestion of undercooked meat w/ bradyzoites
Diagnostic methods for Sarcocystis
- DFS (but indistinguishable from each other)
- Muscle biopsy
The species of Cryptosporidium that infects humans and most mammals is what?
C. parvum
What is the infective stage of C. parvum?
Sporulated thick-walled oocyst