Parasitology Flashcards
Identify types of microscopes
Left: dissecting microscope
Right: Compound microscope
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Habitat
-Identify: Adult Fasciola gigantica
-Criteria: Flat, Leaf like and 2- 6 cm long
-Habitat: bile duct
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-Identify: Adult Fasciola hepatica
-Criteria: 1- Flat, Leaf like and 3 cm long
-Habitat: bile duct
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-Identify: Adult Heterophyes Heterophes
-Criteria: 1- Pear shaped Flat worm and Globular testis at posterior end
-Habitat: Small intestine villi
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-Identify: Adult Hymenolepis nana
-Criteria: Segmented, Flat worm and small Globular scolex
-Habitat: Small intestine (Jejunum, ileum)
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-Identify: Adult Echinococcus Granulosus
-Criteria: Segmented, Flat worm and small Globular scolex
-Habitat: Small intestine of dogs
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-Identify: Male Trichuris Trichiura
-Criteria: Cylindrical, whip like and thin anterior end
-Habitat: Embedded in large intestine (caecum mucosa)
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-Identify: Female Trichuris Trichura
-Criteria: Cylindrical and thin anterior end
-Habitat: Embedded in large intestine (caecum mucosa)
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-Identify: Male Schistosoma mansoni
-Criteria: oral, ventral suckers and Testes: many, clustered
-Habitat: -inferior mesenteric venous plexus of rectum, colon
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-Identify: male schistosoma Haematobium
-Criteria: testes: 3-5 in line and oral, ventral suckers
-Habitat: pelvis, vesical venous plexus of man
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-Identify: Taenia Saginata Scolex
-Criteria: Globular with 4 suckers and No Hooks, No rostellum
-Habitat: Small Intestine (jejunum)
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-Identify: Taenia Solium Scolex
-Criteria: Globular with 4 suckers and 2 circles of Hooks with rostellum
-Habitat: Small Intestine (jejunum)
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-Identify: Buccal capsule of ancylostoma duodenale
-Criteria: Cup shaped cavity and ventral teeth, dorsal plates
-Habitat: Small Intestine (jejunum)
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-Identify: Anterior end of female Enterobius Vermicularis
-Criteria: Double bulbed Oesophagus and Eggs inside uterus
-Habitat: Caecum, appendix
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-Identify: Mature segment of Diphyllobothrium latum
-Criteria: Broader than long and Rosette shaped uterus
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-Habitat: Small Intestine
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-Identify: Mature segment of Taenia
-Criteria: Squarish shaped and Bilobed ovary
-Habitat: Small Intestine (jejunum)
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-Identify: Gravid segment of Taenia Saginata
-Criteria: Longer than broad and Uterine branches
-Habitat: Small Intestine (jejunum)
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Habitat
-Identify: Schistosoma mansoni Egg
-Criteria: oval eggs and Lateral spine
-Habitat: -inferior mesenteric venous plexus of rectum, colon
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-Identify: Fasciola Egg
-Criteria: the largest egg and oval in shape
-Habitat: bile duct
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-Identify: Heterophyes Heterophyes Egg
-Criteria: small, oval and thick shell
-Habitat: Small intestine villi
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-Identify: Taenia Egg
-Criteria: spherical, brown and 2 close circles with striation
-Habitat: Small Intestine (jejunum)
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-Identify: Ascaris Lumbricoides Egg
-Criteria: yellowish brown and mamillated
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-Habitat: Small Intestine Lumen
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-Identify: Trichuris Trichiuria Egg
-Criteria: Oval and yellowish brown
-Habitat: Embedded in large intestine
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-Identify: Enterobius Vermicularis Egg
-Criteria: Translucent with Mature larva
-Habitat: Caecum, appendix
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-Identify: furcocercus cercaria of Schistosoma
-Criteria: body and Forked tail
-Habitat: inferior mesenteric venous plexus of rectum, colon
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Habitat
-Identify: Cysticercus Cellulosae
-Criteria: Hooks and invaginated scolex
-Habitat: Small Intestine jejunum
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vector
-Identify: Microfilria of Wuchereria Bancrofti
-Criteria: rounded anterior end and tail free of nuclei
-Vector: Adult female culex mosquito
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vector
Habitat
-Identify: Microfilria of Loa Loa
-Criteria: rounded anterior end and pointed tail full of nuclei
-Vector: Chrysops
-Habitat: Conjunctiva, subcutaneous tissue
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-Section in: Small Intestine
-showing: Adult H.Heterophyes
-Criteria: - Villi of small intestine and adult section between villi
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Habitat
-Section in: Lung tissue
-showing: Hydatid cyst
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-Criteria: - Germinal, laminated, fibrous layer and brood capsule
-Habitat: Small intestine of dogs
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Habitat
-Section in: Skeletal Muscle
- showing: Encysted larvae of Trichinella spiralis
-Criteria: Larvae within oval cysts and Cysts parallel to longitudinal axis
of skeletal muscle
-Habitat: Small intestine
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vector
-Section in: fibrous tissue nodule
- showing: Adult Onchocerca
-Criteria: fibrous tissue and adult female worm with 2 uteri filled with MF
- Vector: Simulium
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Medical importance
-Identify: Lymnaea Cailliaudi
-Criteria:- right side opening and short spire
-Medical importance: Intermediate Host of Fasciola Gigantica
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Medical importance
-Identify: Pirenella conica
-Criteria: right side opening and long, conical spire
-Medical importance: 1 st Intermediate host of H.Heterophyes
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Medical importance
-Identify: Biomphalaria Alexandrina
-Criteria: left side opening and flat
-Medical importance: Intermediate Host of S.Mansoni
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Medical importance
-Identify: Bulinus truncates snail
-Criteria: left-sided opening and blunt apex
Medical importance: I.H of Schistosoma haematobium
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Habitat
-Identify: piece of Liver infected with adult Fasciola
-Criteria: leaf like , flat worm
-Habitat: bile duct
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-Identify: Adult F.gigantica
-Criteria: leaf like, flat worm
-Habitat: bile duct
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-Identify: Adult F.hepatica
-Criteria: leaf like flat worm
-Habitat: bile duct
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-Identify: Adult Taenia segments
-Criteria: Broader than long immature segment and squarish mature worm
-Habitat: Small Intestine jejunum
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Habitat
-Identify: Solitary Cyst
-Criteria: white color
-Spherical Cyst
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-Identify: Single Hydatid Cyst in liver
-Criteria: Spherical Cyst and Surrounded by fibrous tissue
-Habitat: Small intestine
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-Identify: multiple Hydatid Cyst in liver
-Criteria: Spherical Cavities and Surrounded by fibrous tissue
-Habitat: Small intestine
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-Identify: Single Hydatid Cyst in Lung
-Criteria: Spherical Cyst and Surrounded by fibrous tissue
-Habitat: Small intestine
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-Identify: multiple Hydatid Cyst in Lung
-Criteria: multi Spherical Cyst and Surrounded by fibrous tissue
-Habitat: Small intestine
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- Identify: piece of heart muscle of cattle with Cysticercus bovis
- Criteria: oval body and White color
-Habitat: Small Intestine jejunum
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-Identify: Female adult Ascaris worm
-Criteria: creamy white and Pointed posterior end
-Habitat: Small Intestine Lumen
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-Identify: Adult Ascaris worm
-Criteria: Creamy white and round worm
-Habitat: Small Intestine Lumen
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-Identify: adult Male, Female Ancylostoma Duodenale
-Criteria: male posterior end: fan shaped bursa and female posterior end: pointed
-Habitat: Small Intestine jejunum
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-Identify: Adult trichuris trichuria attached to mucosa of caecum
-Criteria: Cylindrical, whip like and irregular mucosal folds
-Habitat: Embedded in large intestine
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-Identify: Entamoeba histolytica Trophozoite
-Criteria: irregular and one nucleus
-Habitat: Wall, lumen of colon
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-Identify: Entamoeba histolytica Cyst
-Criteria: rounded and multiple nuclei (≤ 4 nuclei )
-Habitat: Wall, lumen of colon
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-Identify: Entamoeba Coli Cyst
-Criteria: rounded and multiple nuclei (5-8 nuclei )
-Habitat: Large intestine
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-Identify: Giardia lamblia trophozoite
-Criteria: - pear shaped and 2 nuclei
-Habitat: Duodenum, bile duct
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-Identify: Giardia lamblia Cyst
-Criteria: oval cyst and nuclei at one pole
-Habitat: Duodenum, bile duct
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-Identify: Balantidium coli trophozoite
-Criteria: oval shape and kidney shape macronucleus
-Habitat: mucosa, submucosa of colon, caecum
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-Identify: Balantidium coli cyst
-Criteria: spherical shape and kidney shape macronucleus
-Habitat: mucosa, submucosa of colon, caecum
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Vector
-Identify: Polymorphic Trypanosomes in blood
-Criteria: central Nucleus and spindle shaped
-Habitat: Blood, lymph node, CNS
-Vector: Tse Tse fly
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Vector
-Identify: Monomorphic Trypanosomes (T.Cruzi)
-Criteria: a) C-shaped and central Nucleus
-Habitat: Blood, heart muscle, brain
-Vector: kissing bug
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-Identify: Toxoplasma gondii trophozoite
-Criteria: Crescent shaped and central nucleus
-Habitat: -intestine, Extra intestine of cats
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-Identify: Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst
-Criteria: pink spherical oocyst and blue background
-Habitat: Small Intestine
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-Identify: Trichomonas vaginalis trophozoite
-Criteria: a)pear shaped and one anterior nucleus
-Habitat: vagina, urethra of female
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Vector
-Identify: Leishmania amastigotes in macrophages
-Criteria: large macrophage and eccentric Nucleus
-Habitat: RES (spleen, lymph node, liver, bone marrow)
-Vector: Phlebotomus sand fly
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Vector
-Identify: Leishmania Promastigote
-Criteria: Anterior flagellum and Central nucleus
-Habitat: Macrophages
-Vector: Phlebotomus sand fly
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Vector
-Identify: Plasmodium Vivax Gametocyte
-Criteria: Dark pigments are seen and spherical, fill enlarged RBCs
-Habitat: Erythrocyte (RBCs)
-Vector: adult female anopheles mosquito
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Vector
-Identify: Plasmodium Falciparum Gametocyte
-Criteria: Banana-Shaped and appears as if outside RBCs
-Habitat: Erythrocyte (RBCs)
-Vector: adult female anopheles mosquito
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Vector
-Identify: Babesia Ring (Maltase Cross Form)
-Criteria: Multiple Invasion and Variable size, shape
-Habitat: Erythrocyte (RBCs)
-Vector: Hard Tick
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Habitat
-Identify: Trophozoite of acanthamoeba spp
in culture
-Criteria: irregular shape with spine like acanthapodia
-Habitat: brain
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Habitat
-Identify: Cyst of Acanthamoeba in brain tissue
-Criteria: rounded and single nucleus
Habitat: brain
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Habitat
-Identify: Flagella form of naegleria fowleri
-Criteria: single nucleus and two anterior flagella
-Habitat: brain
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Female Anopheles Mosquito
-Criteria: spotted wing and pilose antenna
-Medical Importance: Malaria
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Female Culex Mosquito
-Criteria: non spotted wing and Pilose antenna
-Medical Importance: Wuchereria bancrofti
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Female Phlebotomus
-Criteria: Humped thorax and abdominal and Sex Differentiation
-Medical Importance: Leshmaniasis
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Musca domestica
-Criteria: small fly and dark longitudinal bands on thorax
-Medical importance: Typhoid, poliomyelitis.
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult sarcophaga
-Criteria: large fly and Chess-board abdomen
-Medical importance: semi-specific myiasis
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Wohlfahrtia
-Criteria: large fly and 3 dark spots on each abdomen segment
-Medical importance: semi-specific myiasis
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Lucilia
-Criteria: Musca size and Metallic green
-Medical importance: semi-specific myiasis
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Calliphora
-Criteria: Musca size and Metallic blue
-Medical importance: semi-specific myiasis
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Triatoma
-Criteria: 2 Complete pairs of wings and 3 Pairs of legs
-Medical Importance: Chagas Disease
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Flea
-Criteria: Bilaterally Compressed and 3 pairs of strong legs
-Medical Importance: Plague
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Cimex Lactularis
-Criteria: 3 pairs of legs dorsoventrally compressed and No claws
-Medical Importance: Insomnia
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Pediculus Humanis
-Criteria: 3 pairs of legs dorsoventrally compressed each leg ends with claws
-Medical Importance: Epidemic typhus
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Phthirus Pubis
-Criteria: thorax and abdomen are compressed and 3 pairs of legs
-Medical Importance: Blepharitis
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Hard Tick
-Criteria: 4 pairs of legs and scutum on dorsal surface
-Medical Importance: Lyme disease
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Medical importance
-Identify: Adult Soft Tick
-Criteria: a) 4 pairs of legs, No scutum
-Medical Importance: Endemic Relapsing Fever
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Medical importance
-Identify: Mosquito Pupa
-Criteria: Comma shaped, paddles posteriorly
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Medical importance
-Identify: Anopheles Larva
-Criteria: formed of head, thorax, abdomen and without respiratory siphon
-Medical importance: Human Malaria
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-Identify: Aedes Larva
-Criteria: formed of head, thorax, abdomen and short, broad respiratory siphon (2:1)
-Medical Importance: Yellow Fever Virus
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Medical importance
-Identify: Culex Larva
-Criteria: formed of head, thorax, abdomen and long, slender respiratory siphon (4:1)
-Medical Importance: Wuchereria Bancrofti
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Medical importance
-Identify: Musca domestica posterior R.spiracles
-Criteria: D-shaped, 3 sinuous slits
-Medical importance: Accidental myiasis
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-Identify: Calliphorinae posterior R.spiracles
-Criteria: c-shaped, 3 straight slits
-Medical importance: semi-specific myiasis
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-Identify: Sarcophaginae posterior spiracles
-Criteria: c-shaped, 3 straight slits
-Medical importance: semi-specific myiasis
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Medical importance
-Identify: Anopheles egg
-Criteria: Slipper shaped with air cells and Yellowish brown
-Medical Importance: Human Malaria
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-Identify: Aedes Egg
-Criteria: dark brown and diamond in shape
-Medical Importance: Yellow Fever Virus
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Medical importance
-Identify: Culex egg raft
-Criteria: brownish color and ciggar shaped
-Medical Importance: Wuchereria Bancrofti
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Medical importance
-Identify: Egg of lice
-Criteria:
a) Oval shaped
b) crown shaped operculum
c) cemented to a hair
-Medical Importance: Epidemic relapsing fever
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Medical importance
-Identify: Musca egg
-Criteria: Banana shaped and creamy white in color
-Medical importance: Typhoid
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: Haematuria
-Causative parasite: Schistosoma haematobium
-Habitat: pelvis, vesical venous plexus
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: Hepatosplenomegaly
-Causative parasite: Schistosoma mansoni
-Habitat: inferior mesenteric venous plexus of rectum, colon
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: Elephantiasis of lower limb
-Causative Parasite: Wuchereria Bancrofti
-Vector: Adult female culex mosquito
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: Chyluria
-Causative Parasite: Wuchereria Bancrofti
-Vector: Adult female culex mosquito
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: Orbital edema
-Causative Parasite: Trichinella spiralis
-Habitat: Small intestine mucosa
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: splinter hemorrhage
-Causative Parasite: Trichinella spiralis
-Habitat: Small intestine mucosa
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Causative parasite
Vector
Habitat
-Identify: Lizard skin
-Causative Parasite: Onchocerca volvulus
-Vector: simulium
-Habitat: Eye, subcutaneous nodule
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Onchocerca nodule
-Causative Parasite: Onchocerca volvulus
-Vector: simulium
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Adult Loa Loa under the conjunctiva of the eye
-Causative Parasite: Loa Loa
-Vector: Chrysops
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Calabar swelling
-Causative Parasite: Loa Loa
-Vector: Chrysops
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Dry cutaneous Leshmaniasis
-Causative Parasite: Leishmania Tropica
-Vector: Phlebotomus sand fly
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Wet cutaneous Leshmaniasis
-Causative Parasite: Leishmania Major
-Vector: Phlebotomus sand fly
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Romana’s sign
-Causative Parasite: Trypanosome cruzi
-Vector: Winged bug
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Winterbottoms sign
-Causative Parasite:
-African trypanosome = Trypanosome Brucei gambiense
-Vector: Tsetse fly
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Causative parasite
Vector
-Identify: Megacolon
-Causative Parasite: Trypanosome cruzi
-Vector: Winged bug
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Causative parasite
-Identify: Hydrocephalus
-Causative Parasite: Toxoplasma Gondii
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Medical Importance
-Identify: Demodex folliculorum
-Medical Importance : Demodex folliculitis
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Medical Importance
-Identify: Scabies
-Medical Importance: Sarcoptes scabiei
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: Flask shaped Ulcer
-Causative parasite: Entamoeba histolytica
-Habitat: Wall, lumen of colon
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Causative parasite
Habitat
-Identify: Amoebic liver abscess
-Causative parasite: Entamoeba histolytica
-Habitat: Wall, lumen of colon
