MISCELLANEOUS PROTOZOANS AND OTHER UNICELLULAR PARASITES

Question 1

Common parasite of pigs

Answer 1

Balantidium coli

Question 2

largest intestinal protozoans

Answer 2

B. coli

Question 3

only medically important protozoa

Answer 3

Balantidium coli

Question 4

MOT of B. coli

Answer 4

ingestion of cyst from ingested food and water

Question 5

diseases caused by B. coli

Answer 5

Balantidiasis/ Balantidial dysentery (no tissue abcess)

Question 6

colonic ulcerations in B. coli

Answer 6

wide neck ulceration

Question 7

E. histolytica colonic ulcerations

Answer 7

flask-shaped ulcerations

Question 8

habitat of B. coli

Answer 8

large intestine

Question 9

Oocyst is immediately infective: Cryptosporidiosis (primarily
intestinal but may be
extraintestinal)

Answer 9

Cryptosporidium parvum

Question 10

cyclosporiasis

Answer 10

Cyclospora cayetanensis

Question 11

Cytoisosporiasis

Answer 11

Cytoisospora belli

Question 12

MOT of C. parvum, C. belli, C. cayetansis

Answer 12

ingestion of mature and sporolated oocysts

Question 13

cyanobacteria like body/autofluersces

Answer 13

C. parvum

Question 14

habitat of C. belli, C.. cayetansis, S. hominis, /S. sulhoni, Blastocystis hominis. Encephalizoon intestinalis/Entericytozoon bieneusi

Answer 14

small intestine

Question 15

habitat of C. parvum

Answer 15

brush border of small intestine

Question 16

tissue sarcocystosis
(myalgia, muscle weakness
and transitory edema

Answer 16

Sarcocystis lindemanni

Question 17

smallest intestinal parasites

Answer 17

E. bieneusi

Question 18

autorfluorescence positive

Answer 18

C. belli, C. cayatenensis, S. hominis

Question 19

color of autofluorescence positive

Answer 19

bright blue

Question 20

Estramenophytes

Answer 20

Blastocystis hominis