PARASITOLOGY

Question 1

wingless arthropods

Answer 1

ticks
bedbugs
mites
spiders

Question 2

head louse

Answer 2

Pediculus humanus capitis

Question 3

scabies is a type of (INFECTION, INFESTATION)

Answer 3

INFESTATION

Question 4

Agent of “crabs”

Answer 4

Pthuris pubis (an ectoparasite)

Question 5

infective stage of Leishmania spp. to humans

Answer 5

Promastigote

Question 6

agent of KALA-AZAR/DUMDUM FEVER/VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS

Answer 6

Leishmania donovani

Question 7

agent of Chaga’s disease

Answer 7

T. cruzi

Question 8

Rhodesian/East African sleeping sickness

Answer 8

T. brucei rhodiense

Question 9

Gambian disea/West African sleeping sickness

Answer 9

T. brucie gambiense

Question 10

parasite that can undergo autofluorescence

Answer 10

Cyclospora

Question 11

important cause of CHORIORETINITIS

Answer 11

Toxoplasma

Question 12

patient with CEREBRAL CALCIFICATION must be tested with

Answer 12

Toxoplasma antibody titer

Question 13

oocysts recovered in cat feces

Answer 13

Toxoplasma gondii

Question 14

gold standard for malaria

Answer 14

Giemsa stain

Question 15

parasite Lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) is produced by

Answer 15

all four plasmodium species (falciparum, malariae, vivax, ovale)

Question 16

HRP-II antigen is produced by

Answer 16

P. falciparum

Question 17

HRP-2 is detected by what test

Answer 17

MalaQuick Standby Malaria test

Question 18

principal vector of malaria in the philippines

Answer 18

Anopheles minimus flavirostris

Question 19

definitive host of plasmodium spp.

Answer 19

Female anopheles mosquito

Question 20

paroxysmal cycle of P. malariae

Answer 20

72 hours

Question 21

paroxysmal cycle of P. vivax and ovale

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48 hours

Question 22

paroxysmal cycle of P. falciparum

Answer 22

36 hours

Question 23

has a paroxysmal cycle of 24 hours

Answer 23

P. knowlesi

Question 24

hypnozoites maybe seen in malarial infections caused by

Answer 24

P. vivax and ovale

Question 25

PLASMODIUM spp. responsible for 90% of malaria cases

Answer 25

P. falciparum & P. vivax

Question 26

Protozoan with an undulating membrane

Answer 26

Pentatrichomonas | Trichomonas

Question 27

Test for diagnosis of Giardia lamblia

Answer 27

ENTEROTEST

Question 28

causes "crypt" hypertrophy in duodenum & subsequential diarrhea

Answer 28

G. lamblia

Question 29

assoc. with steatorrhea and Gay bowel syndrome

Answer 29

G. lamblia

Question 30

Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM)

Answer 30

Naegleria fowleri

Question 31

double walled cyst, outer-wrinkled wall & inner polygonal wall

Answer 31

Acanthamoeba

Question 32

amoeba with ingested Neutrophils

Answer 32

E. gingivalis

Question 33

amoeba with caharcteistic of "basket nucleus"

Answer 33

Iodamoeba butschlii

Question 34

sluggish, non-directional, "dirty cytoplasm"

Answer 34

Entamoeba coli

Question 35

mature cyst of Entamoeba coli contains ___ nuclei

Answer 35

8 nuclei

Question 36

SREHP stands for_________________

Answer 36

Serine Rich Entamoeba histolytica Protein