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  1. Define what is a parasite?
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A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.

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  1. What are the three main classes of parasites that cause disease in humans?
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  1. Protozoa
  2. Helminths
  3. Ectoparasites.
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  1. What is a protozoa?
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• Protozoa are microscopic, single-celled organisms that can be free- living or parasitic in nature.

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  1. What feature of a protozoa parasite allows it to cause serious infections in humans?
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They are able to multiply in humans allowing serious infections to develop from a single organism.

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  1. How are protozoa transmitted in humans?
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• Protozoa living in the human intestine can be transmitted by the fecal-oral
route

• Protozoa living in blood or tissues are transmitted by an arthropod vector

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  1. What feature of protozoa are they classified by?
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There mode of movement

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  1. Give the five classifications of protozoa
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  1. Amoeba
  2. Flagellates
  3. Ciliates
  4. Sporozoa
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  1. Give an example of an Amoeba protozoa?
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Entamoeba

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  1. Give two examples of a flagellate protozoa?
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  1. Giardia

2. Leishmania

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  1. Give an example of a ciliate protozoa?
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Balantidium

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  1. What are Sporozoa protozoa and give two examples?
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• Sporozoa – organisms whose adult stage is not motile e.g. Plasmodium, Cryptosporidium

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  1. List three medically important protozoa infections?
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Any three out of :
• Entamoeba histolytica
• Giardia lamblia
• Trichomonas vaginalis
• Malaria (Plasmodium spp.) • Toxoplasma gondii
• Cryptosporidium
• Leishmania spp.
• Trypansoma cruzi
• Trypansoma brucei (gambiense/rhodesiense)
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  1. What are Helminths?
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Helminths are large, multicellular organisms (worms) generally visible to the naked eye in their adult stages.

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  1. In their human form can Helminths multiply in humans?
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NO

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  1. What are the three main groups of Helminths in the human parasite?
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  1. Nematodes (roundworms)
  2. Trematodes (flukes)
  3. Cestodes (tapeworms)
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  1. What are three types of medically important Helminths that are nematodes? Give an example for each
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  1. Soil transmitted Helminths eg Hookworm spp
  2. Filarial parasites eg Loa Loa
  3. Others eg Trichinella Spiralis
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  1. Give an example of a medically important Helminths that is a trematode?
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Paragonimus Spp

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  1. Give an example of a medically important Helminths that is also a cestode?
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Taenia Solium

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  1. What are ectoparasites - give some examples?
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• Blood-sucking arthropods such as ticks, fleas, lice, and mites that attach or burrow into the skin and remain there for relatively long periods of time (e.g., weeks to months).


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  1. What are four types of medically important ectoparasites?
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  1. Mites
  2. Ticks
  3. Lice
  4. Flies
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  1. What types of mites are there?
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Scabies or Trombiculid

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  1. What types of ticks are there?
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Hard or soft

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  1. What types of lice are there?
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  • Pediculus humanus capitis

* Pediculus humanus humanus

24
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  1. Whats an example of the flies ectoparasites?
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Botflies

25
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  1. Approx. how many people does malaria kill each year?
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660,000 people each year

26
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  1. What is an NTD and give some examples of parasitic diseases that are NTDs?
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The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) include parasitic diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and Guinea worm disease

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  1. What are two types of host that parasites can infect?
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  • Intermediate – host in which larval or asexual stages develop
  • Definitive – host in which adult or sexual stage occurs
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  1. What are two types of vectors parasites can have?
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  • Mechanical when no development of parasite in vector

* Biological when some stages of life cycle occur

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  1. What is the primary determinant of the distribution of parasite infection in humans?
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relative wealth

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  1. What are 5 determinants of parasite infections?
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  • > Depends on mode of transmission and opportunities for transmission
  • > Faeco-oral
  • > Complex life cycle
  • > Others
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  1. What determines if there will be faeco-oral transmission?
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  • > Household Sanitation
  • > Access to clean water
  • > Personal hygiene behaviours
32
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  1. How could food be a way of transmission?
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  • > Animal Husbandry
  • > Surveillance
  • > Regulations and government controls
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  1. How might complex life cycles be a way of transmission?
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Distributions of vectors and intermediate/definitive hosts

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  1. What are some examples of other determinants of the distribution of parasitic infections?
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  • Government resources and level of human development/per capita income • Education
  • Country-level and regional control programmes
  • Availability of cheap and efficacious treatments
  • Construction and building regulations(eg Chagas)
  • Urban vs. rural residence
  • Environmental sanitation

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