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Parasitology Flashcards

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Protozoa

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An unicellular organism such as plasmodium (malaria$

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Metazoa

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Multicellular organisms example helminths

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Endoparasite

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A parasite that lives within another living organism

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Host

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The organism in or on which the parasite lives

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Definitive host

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The organism in which the adult of sexually mature stage of the parasite live.

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Intermediate host

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The organism in which the parasite lives during a period of it development.

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Zoonosis

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A parasitic disease in which an animal is normally the host but which also infects man.

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Vector

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A living carrier that transports a pathogenic organism from an infected to a non- infected host.

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The vector that transmit malaria

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Anopheles female mosquito

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Where do you mainly see parasitic infections

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Tropics, poverty, poor sanitation, and personal hygiene.

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Helminths

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Worms

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Parasites chromosomes are

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Well defined chromosome in a nuclear membrane

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Parasite are divided into two kingdoms

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Protozoa and metozoa

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14
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Giardia lamblia

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World wide distribution, lines in small intestine and results in malabsorption

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Entamoeba histolytica

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May invade the colon and cause bloody diarrhea. Amoebic dysentery.

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Cryptosporidium parvum

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Seen in the immunocompromised

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Cyclospora cavetanensis

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Parasitises the small intestines mucosa and may cause diarrhea for several weeks

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Balantidium Coli

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A large motile ciliated parasite that lives in the colon of pigs , humans and rodents and can lead to colonic ulceration

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Enterocytozoon bienusi

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A microporidian that parasites the small intestines.

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Leishmania is transported by

21
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Sleeping sickness is caused

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Tsetse fly

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Truchuris

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Ancylostoma and necator

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Hook worms

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Stongyloides

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Threadworm

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Mebendazole, thiabendazole

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Broad spectrum

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Pytantel pamoate

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Muscle relaxant for ascaris, enterobius

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Ivermectin

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Muscular filaria

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Niclosamide

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Oxidative phosphorylation, cestodes

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Praziquantel

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Muscle, tegument, broad spectrum

30
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Heavy metals such as arsenic and antimony are used to treat

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Leishmania

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Aminoquinolones

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Chloroquine , malaria

32
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Trimethoprim

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Sulfa drugs, toxoplasma, malaria

33
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Protein synthesis

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Malaria, babesia , entamoeba cryptosporidium

34
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Metronidazole

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DNA, entamoeba , giardia , trichomonas

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Quinolones

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Ciprofloxacin, malaria

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