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Introduction — Prelim Flashcards

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It is the area of biology concerned with the phenomenon of dependence of one living organism on another.

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Parasitology

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It is concerned primarily with parasites of humans and their medical significance, as well as their importance in human communities.

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Medical Parasitology

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It is branch of medicine that deals with tropical diseases and other special medical problems of tropical regions.

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Tropical Medicine

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It is an illness, which is indigenous to or endemic in a tropical area but may also occur in sporadic or epidemic proportions in areas that are not tropical.

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Tropical disease

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It is the living together of unlike organisms. It may also involve protection or other advantages to one or both organisms.

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Symbiosis

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It exists when two symbionts are merely “traveling together”, and there is no physiological or biochemical dependence on the part of either participant.

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Phoresis

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It is a symbiosis in which two organisms mutually benefit from each other.

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Mutualism

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It is a symbiotic relationship in which two species benefits from one species benefits from the relationship without harming or benefiting the other.

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Commensalism

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It is a symbiotic relationship where on organism , the parasite, lives in or on another, depending on the latter for its survival and usually at the expense of the host.

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Parasitism

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A parasite living inside the body of a host.

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Endoparasite

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The presence of an endoparasite in a host is called what?

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Infection

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A parasite living outside the body of a host.

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Ectoparasite

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The presence of an ectoparasite on a host is called what?

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Infestation

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According to relationship between host and parasite — It remains on or in the body of the host for its entire life.

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Permanent

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According to relationship between host and parasite — It lives on the host only for a short period of time.

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Temporary

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According to relationship between host and parasite — It is a free-living organism that passes through the digestive tract without infecting the host.

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Spurious

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It is known as the organism that provides physical protection and nourishment to the parasite.

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Hosts

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6 types of Host

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  1. Definitive Host
  2. Intermediate Host
  3. First Intermediate Host
  4. Second Intermediate Host
  5. Paratenic Host
  6. Reservoir Host
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It is one in which the parasite attains sexual maturity.

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Definitive Host

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It harbors the asexual of larval stage of the parasite.

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Intermediate Host

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Harbors the early larval stage of parasite.

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First Intermediate Host

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Harbors the infective larval stage of parasite.

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Second Intermediate Host

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It is one in which thee parasite does not develop further to later stages. However, the parasite remains alive and is able to infect another susceptible host.

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Paratenic Host

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Any animal that harbor an infection that can be transmitted to humans, even if the animal is a normal host of the parasite.

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Reservoir Host

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Infective stage is called cyst.

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Encysting protozoans

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Infective stage is called trophozite.

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Non-encysting protozoans

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Infective stage is called the embryonated egg.

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Egg laying nematodes

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These are responsible for transmitting the parasite from one host to another.

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Vector

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Vector Transmitted Parasite — If the arthropod is simply an instrument of passive transfer.

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Mechanical

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Vector Transmitted Parasite — It transmits the parasite only after the latter has completed its development within the host.

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Biological

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It results when an infected individual becomes his own direct source of infection.

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Autoinfection

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It happens when the already infected with the same species leading to massive infection with the same species leading to massive infection with the parasite.

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Superinfection

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What are the most common sources of infection?

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Contaminated soil and Water

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Modes of Transmission — The most likely portal of entry is what?

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Mouth

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Prevention & Control — It is the avoidance of illness caused by infections. It may be achieved by periodically deworming individuals or groups, known to be at risk of morbidity.

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Morbidity control

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Prevention & Control — It is a health education strategy that aims to encourage people to adapt and maintain health life practices.

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Information-education-communciation

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Prevention & Control — It is the planning, organization, performance, and monitoring of activities for the modification and/or manipulation of environmental factor of their interaction with human beings.

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Environmental management

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Prevention & Control — It involves interventions to reduce environmental health risks including the safe disposal and hygienic management of human and animal excreta, refuse, and waste water.

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Environmental sanitation

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Prevention & Control — It is the provision of access to adequate facilities for the safe disposal of human excreta, usually combined with access to safe drinking water.

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Sanitation

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It is used of the anthelminthic drugs in an individual or a public health program.

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Deworming

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It refers to the number (usually expressed as a percentage) of previously positive subjects found to be egg negative on the examination of a stool or urine sample using a standard procedure at a set time after deworming.

(treatment)

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Cure rate

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It is the percentage fall in egg counts after deworming based on examination of a stool or urine sample using a standard procedure at a set time after after the treatment.

(treatment)

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Egg Reduction Rate

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It involves individual-level deworming with selection for treatment based on a diagnosis of infection or an assessment of the intensity of infection, or based in presumptive grounds.

(treatment)

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Selective treatment

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It is group-level deworming where the (risk) group to be treated (without prior diagnosis) may be defined by age, sex, or other social characteristics irrespective of infection status.

(treatment)

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Targeted treatment

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It is population-level deworming in which the community is treated irrespective of age, sex, infection status, or other social characteristics.

(treatment)

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Universal treatment

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It is the regular, systematic, large-scale intervention involving the administration of one or more drugs to selected population groups with the aim of reducing morbidity and transmission of selected helminth infections.

(treatment)

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Preventive Chemotherapy

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It is defined as permanent reduction to zero of the worldwide incidence of infection caused by a specific agent, as a result of deliberate efforts.

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Disease Eradication

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It is a reduction to zero of the incidence of a specified disease in a defined geographic area as a result of deliberate efforts.

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Disease Elimination

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These are provided with a nucleus or nuclei,
cytoplasm, an outer limiting membrane, and cellular elaborations called organelles.

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Protozoans

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4 Classification of Protozoa

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  1. Sarcomastigophora
  2. Ciliophora
  3. Apicomplexa
  4. Microspora
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3 Classification of Metozoan

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  1. Platyhelminthes
  2. Nemathelminths
  3. Arthropoda
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Representative anti-parasitic drugs.

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Parasite Group

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Metronidazole

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Protozoan

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Mebendazole

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Nematode

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Praziquantel

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Platyhelminthes Trematodes & Cestodes

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Amoeba: Equipped with pseudopods “false feet”

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Sarcodina

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Ciliata: ciliates: equipped with cilia, hair-like structures.

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Ciliophora

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Flagellates: Equipped with flagellum, whip like.

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Mastigophora

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Parasites that are not equipped with definite locomotor apparatus.

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Amicomplexa

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Consists of spore-forming parasites of both vertebrates and invertebrates.

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Microspora

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Trematoda: flukes-leaf-shaped elongated, slender organisms

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Platyhelminthes

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Cestoda: tapeworm: elongated, ribbon-like, segmented orgamisms.

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Platyhelminthes

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Nemathodes: roundworms elongated, cylindrical worms

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Nemathelminthes

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Composed of bilaterally symmetrical organisms with segmented and jointed appendages.

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Arthropod

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