PARASITOLOGY Flashcards
wingless arthropods
ticks
bedbugs
mites
spiders
head louse
Pediculus humanus capitis
scabies is a type of (INFECTION, INFESTATION)
INFESTATION
Agent of “crabs”
Pthuris pubis (an ectoparasite)
infective stage of Leishmania spp. to humans
Promastigote
agent of KALA-AZAR/DUMDUM FEVER/VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS
Leishmania donovani
agent of Chaga’s disease
T. cruzi
Rhodesian/East African sleeping sickness
T. brucei rhodiense
Gambian disea/West African sleeping sickness
T. brucie gambiense
parasite that can undergo autofluorescence
Cyclospora
important cause of CHORIORETINITIS
Toxoplasma
patient with CEREBRAL CALCIFICATION must be tested with
Toxoplasma antibody titer
oocysts recovered in cat feces
Toxoplasma gondii
gold standard for malaria
Giemsa stain
parasite Lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) is produced by
all four plasmodium species (falciparum, malariae, vivax, ovale)