Introduction to Parasitology

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Concerned primarily with the animal 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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This branch of medicine deals with tropical diseases and other medical problems of tropical regions.

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Tropical Medicine

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Body of knowledge concerning disease in human population or community

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Epidemiology

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Organism that provides food and shelter for parasites

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host

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These parasites are not normally “parasitic”, but become so due to impairment of host resistance.

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Opportunistic parasites

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These term is used for organisms responsible for transmitting the parasite from one host to another.

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vector

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Parasite which lives and develops outside the body of the host

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ectoparasite

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Parasite which lives and develops inside the body of the host

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endoparasite

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Term used to describe the organism in which the parasite resides in its sexual phase

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definitive host

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Parasite asexual life cycle takes place in this host before it is deposited in the definitive host

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intermediate host

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Organisms which may live either parasitic or free-living under favorable/appropriate circumstances

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Facultative parasite

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This parasite lives on the host for only a short period of time

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Temporary

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This parasite remains on or in the body of the host for its entire life

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permanent

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When this parasite is in its larval stage, it develops in a host that is different to that of its adult stage

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Periodic

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They need a host at some point in their life cycle to complete their development

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Obligatory

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A parasite that which establishes itself in a host where it does not ordinarily live

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Incidental

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The eggs of this pinworm is air borne

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Enterobius vermicularis

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Presence of this fluke can be assessed in a sputum exam

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Paragonimus westermani

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This protozoan is carried by its mosquito vector, Anopheles sp.

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Plasmodium sp.

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This protozoan produces lytic enzymes which causes ulceration of the stomach

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Entamoeba histolytica

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filamentous extension of the cytoplasm

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flagella

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structure that aids in ingestion of food and serves as a sensory part

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cilia

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temporary projections of the cytoplasm for locomotion and ingestion of food

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pseudopodia

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other name for multiple fission

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schizogony

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Primary Lesion develops in:

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cecum, appendix, ascending colon, sigmoidorectal area

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secondary lesion can be seen in:

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extraintestinal organs and tissues

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agent of primary amoebic encephalitis (PAM)

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Naegleria fowleri

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Manifestation of this amoebic pathology is similar to that of bacterial meningitis

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Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis

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Major cause of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE)

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Acanthamoeba spp.

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Responsible for combined GAE and granulomatous skin and lung lesions

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Balamuthia mandillaris

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The only infectious ciliate

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Balantidium coli

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This enzyme is responsible for the degradation of intestinal tissues

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hyaluronidase