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Parasitic Amoebas Flashcards

0
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More easily destroyed than the cyst

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Trophozoite

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Active vegatative form

15-30 u

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Trophozoite

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Ectoplasm of tropozoite is sharply separated from the

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Endoplasm

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3
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Endoplasm of tropozoite sometimes include ____

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RBC

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How many nucleus tropozoite has?

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1

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Location of nucleus of tropozoite?

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Eccenteric

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6
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Single eccenteric nucleus contains a _______ located _______

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Centrally

Karyosome

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7
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Look like of tropozoite

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Finger like pseudopodia

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8
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Tropozoite only has one?

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Nucleus

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9
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What is the shape of the cyst

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Round to oval

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10
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What is the size of cyst?

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10-20 u

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11
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How many days the cyst can surive at 37c

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2days

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12
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Cyst can survive 60 days at what temperature?

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0C

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13
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Cyst has a _____ wall

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Smooth refractile

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14
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Cytoplasm of cyst contains ____ and ____ for nutrition

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Glycogen

Chomotoid bodies

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15
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Immature cyst

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1 or 2 nuclei

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16
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Mature cyst

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Infective

Contains 4 nuclei

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17
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Reproduction of trophozoite

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Binary fission

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18
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Cyst- small intestine enzymes undergo ______ becomes ______

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Exestation

Trophozoite

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19
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Cyst passes through _____

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Stomach

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20
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How many trophozoites in the colon have?

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8

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21
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Cyst formation

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Encystation

Pt. only forms formed stools

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22
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Lesions under microscope, primary.

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Intestinal

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23
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Lesions under microscope, secondary.

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Extra intestinal

Liver

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24
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Colonization of the large intestine

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Flask shaped ulcers
Wide base and narrow opening
Irregular slightly elevated
Muscularis propria

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25
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Complications

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Appendicitis
Intestinal perforartion
Hemorrhage
Stricture
Granuloma (chronic)
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26
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Belong to a group of protozoans that are motile through cytoplasmic extensions known as pseudopods

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Ameba

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27
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Example of amebas

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Parasitic amebas
Entamoeba histolytica
E. coli
Dispar
Hartmanii
Gingivalis
Nana
Butchliii
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Entamoeba histolytica causes

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Amebiasis
Amebic dysentery
Amebic hepatitis

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Principal host of E. histolytica

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Human beings

30
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Example of E. H

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Cyst

Trophozoite

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Cyst may be seen in

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Formed stools

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Trophozoite commonly seen in

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Diarrheic stools

33
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E.H incidence of infection is as high as

34
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E.H prevalence in homos is as high as

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Infective stage of organism

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Main source of infection

37
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Dissemination from the intestine chiefly by the bloodstream

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Hepatic amoebiasis

38
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The wall of the abscess thickness and the center liquifies becoming a red brown mass of autolysed hepatic cells, rbc, bile, etc.

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Hepatic amebiasis

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Extraintestinal

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Hepatic amebiasis
Pulmonary amebiasis
Cerebral amebiasis

40
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How to diagnose?

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Microspcopic identification of the cysts or trophozoites in feces or tissue

41
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What are components of amebic stools?

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Acidic
Few neutrophils
Degenerated RBCs
Positive charcot leyden crytals ( derived from eosinophils )

42
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Treatment for parasitic amoebas

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Metronidazole 750 mg TID for 5-10 days

Iodoquinol 650mg TID, 20 days

43
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Non pathogenic amoebas

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Entamoeba coli
Entamoeba dispar
Entamoeba hartmanii
Entamoeba gungivalis
Entamoeba nana
Iodamoeba butchilii
44
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Prevalence of 10-30 %

45
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Life cycle to E H

Mistaken for a EH

46
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More ganular endoplasm containing ingested bacteria

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E coli trophozoite

47
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Larger with more granular cytoplasm

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E coli cyst

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In 1993, proposed as the name for non pathogenic E Histolytica

49
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Originally though to be a “ small race” of EH, now considered as a seperate species

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E hartmanii

50
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Narrower ectoplasm

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E coli trophozoite

51
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Slender, splinter like chromatoid bodies neclei with eccenteric karyosome

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E coli cyst

52
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Broader or blunter pseudopodia -

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E coli trophozoite

53
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Identical to E H but does not invade the tissues

54
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Eccenteric karyosome in the nucleus

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E coli trophozoite

55
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More sluggish movement

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E coli trophozoite

56
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Morphology is similar to E histolytica but smaller (12-15u)

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E hartmanii

57
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Most stricking characteristics

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E gingivalis

58
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10-20% prevalence

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Endolimax nana

59
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With prominent karyosine

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Endolimax nana

60
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Identified by the charac nucleus and large glycogen body in the uninucleated cyst

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Iodamoeba buthclii

61
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Small (5-14)

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Endolimax nana

62
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4 nucleus cyst, uninucleated trophozoite

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Endolimax nana

63
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May be stained by iodine due to glycogen

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Iodamoeba butchlii

64
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Blastocystis hominis

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Yeast to protozoa

Large number found in feces with severe diarrhea

65
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Commonly in stool small

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Blastocystis hominis

66
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Tereatment to blastocystis hominis

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Metronidazole

67
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Appear in the feces as spherical cyst like stage large central vacuole with narrow rim of cytoplasm containing nuclei

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Blastocystis hominis

OLFU Parasitology (9 decks)

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