Parasites

Question 1

What is trophoites

Answer 1

Stage when you get infected

Question 2

How would you diagnose trichomonas vaginalis

Answer 2

Wet prep, swimming pears

Question 3

How does an amoeba one

Answer 3

Like an inch worm

Question 4

How do sporozoa move

Answer 4

They don’t

Question 5

What are the blood-tissue Protozoa

Answer 5

Mosquitos, sand fleas, ticks (Arthropoda)

Question 6

Travelers dysentery, contain RBC

Answer 6

Entamoeba histolytica

Question 7

1 Protozoa in the US, contaminated water, sulfurous farts, vomiting, fat rich stool,

Answer 7

Giardia lamblia

Question 8

What is identified via blood smear

Answer 8

Trypanosoma brucei, trypanosoma cruzi, P falcicform

Question 9

Watery diarrhea, life threatening in aids, acid fast positive

Answer 9

Cryptosporidium parfumerie

Question 10

What are the acid fast postitive

Answer 10

Cyclospora (larger), crytosporium (smaller)

Question 11

African sleeping sickness, transmitted by tense fly

Answer 11

Trypanasoma brucei

Question 12

Cardiomegaly, megacolon, megaesophagus, transmitted by kissing bug Reduvid, South American

Answer 12

Trypanosoma cruzi

Question 13

Banana shape malaria, cycling fever, blood in urine, cerebral hemorrhage

Answer 13

P. Falciform

Question 14

Cat eats infected poop, cysts from in poop, puts fetus at risk of hydrocephaly, intracranial calcification

Answer 14

Toxoplasmosis

Question 15

How do you differentiate entamoeba histolytica from shigella

Answer 15

Shigella has fever (bacterial)

Question 16

Tick, causes fever and hemolytic anemia, Maltese cross

Answer 16

Babesiosis (sometimes confused with anemia)

Question 17

Protozoa, visceral and cutaneous, sand fly, macrophages with amastigotes, fever and ulcers

Answer 17

Leishmaniasis

Question 18

Plasmodium, from anopheles mosquito, blood in urine, cerebral hemorrhage

Answer 18

Malaria