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The agent of Chagas disease?

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  • Kissing Bug
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Human infection with larva stage of Solium?

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Cysticercosis

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. Adult Schistosome that resides in the inferior mesentery vein?

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  • S. mansoni
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A case of fish nematode infection that can be recovered during endoscopy?

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Anisakis

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5
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The female worm migrates to the skin surface producing blister and diagnosis is made by finding the female
worm emerging in the skin at the surface with larva in the discharge fluid?

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  • Dracunculus medinensis
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Ciliated trematode larva is capable of penetrating the tissue snail host?

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Miracidium

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Development of Cholangiocarcinoma?

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  • Clonorchis sinensis
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The egg has the characteristics flattened operculum, can be isolated in the stole or the sputum?

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  • Paragonimus westermani.
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The egg has resemblance with trichuris with gurgling stomach?

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  • Capillara pilipinensis
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Pear-shaped organism, exhibiting falling-leaf motility?

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Gardia

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The presence of protozoan commonly in vacuolar form and the nuclei are found in the periphery?

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Blastocystis hominis

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12
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Toxoplasma gondii infection can be acquired through the ingestion of ?

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  • Both (Oocysts and Tissue Cysts)
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A disease affecting the reticuloendothelial system which you can find the amastigote and promastigote forms?

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  • Leishmania
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14
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The fusion of the male and the female gametocyte occurs in what host?

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  • Definitive host
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15
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The identifying malarial parasite on the thin blood film one should look in the following except?

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  • Appearance in the infective WBC
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Infected Stages of the Parasite:

Hymenolipis nana

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embryonated egg

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Infected Stages of the Parasite:

Necator Americanus

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filariform

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Infected Stages of the Parasite:

Taena spp.

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Cysticercus

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Infected Stages of the Parasite:

Capillaria philippinensis

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  • Infected larva
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The helminth with a buccal orifice with three lips?

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Adult ascaris

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21
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Find the incorrect symptoms and diagnosis

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Iron deficiency anemia for D.latum (because it is pernicious anemia)

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22
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Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.

Presence of operculum

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D.latum

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23
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Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.

Sensitive to alcohol

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Taena saginata

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24
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Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.

The only human tapeworm that completes its life cycle in the single host

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H.nana

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25
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Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.

Resembling like a whipworm

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Trichuris trichura

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26
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Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.

Cyclops

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D.latum

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27
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Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.

Sheep

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Echinococcus

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28
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Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.

Human

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  • T.solium
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29
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Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.

Insect

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H. nana

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30
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Causing protracted diarrhea among immunocompromised individuals such as those with AIDS except?

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Chilomastix mesnili

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31
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What is the drug of choice in the treatment of tapeworm infection?

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Praziquantel

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32
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What do you call a layer of cells between the plasma and the red blood cell after centrifugation?

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Buffy coat

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33
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Choose the correct match of specie intermediate host diagnosis

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H.diminuta- Flee- Direct fecal smea

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34
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Parasitic autoinfection with specie of hymenolepis happens when

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  • Embryonation of egg into the intestine.
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35
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Find the incorrect match in the organism and characteristic morphology

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  • Hymenolepis egg with striated shell
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36
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Blood samples for filarial diagnosis maybe taken during which of the following?

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  • Dependent on the specie of the parasite
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37
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Incorrect match between the organism and procedure?

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  • All are correct
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38
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Sheep microfilariae, numerous nuclei contain in the body, cephalic end is blunt and round, and tail-end culminates in a point that is free of nuclei

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  • Wuchereria bancrofti
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39
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The term gravid means?

40
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All of the following can possible be acquired by a sexual contact except?

41
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the only representative pathogenic ciliate has the following or correct morphology/traits

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  • Cilia serve as the organelles of motility
42
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The only nematode that is known to present problems among individual

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  • Strongyloides
43
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Cresent shapes, two-sides

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  • P.falcifarum
44
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. Incorrect match between organism and the appropriate diagnostic procedure

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  • Cryptosporidium giemsa (correct is modified acid fast stain)
45
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The following are advantages of Kato-katz except

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  • Hookworm egg is best isolated (hookworm egg will disintegrate)
46
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A parasite that appeared as rounded globular jerky tumbling motility

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  • Trichomonas vaginalis
47
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Diagnosis of Trichomonas vaginalis infection can be established by the following

48
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Lectins of Gardia lambia once activated is able to facilitate attachment?

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  • intestinal cells
49
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Least likely to contain vaginalis

50
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A parasite which is originally describe as an amoeba but it is actually a flagellate

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  • Dientamoeba fragilis
51
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Diagnosis of Babesiosis

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  • look to intraerythrocytic parasite in the giemsa stain blood film
52
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Encysted metacercariae in pickled undercooked fresh water fish ingested human host may transmit this

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  • Clonorchis sinensis
53
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The limiting factor for the number of cercariae that develops from one miracidium of your japonicum is
attributed to

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  • The size of the snail host
54
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Classified as pseud parasitic infection, the body will not manifest any disease

55
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Which of the following statement is true

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  • All trematodes require two intermediate host except for your Schistosomes
56
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Which of the following is correctly match with the second intermediate host?

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  • Paragonimus and Sundathelphusa
57
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Effective means in controlling the transmission of clonorchiasis

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  • Irradiate the fish
58
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Identify the specie of parasite with their associated AKA

Capillaria

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  • Pudoc worm
59
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Identify the specie of parasite with their associated AKA

Dracunculus

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  • Fiery serpent
60
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Identify the specie of parasite with their associated AKA

Echinococcus

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  • Hyadid worm
61
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Identify the specie of parasite with their associated AKA

Schistosoma haematobium

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Bladder worm

62
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Which of the following parasite is not transmitted by eating raw or undercook fish

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  • Echinostoma ilocanum (its via the snail)
63
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Which of the following statement is diagnostic of amoebiasis?

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  • trophozoite that will ingest red blood cell
64
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Transformation for the cysts into trophozoite occurs where?

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  • Small intestine
65
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Identify the parasite: Glanders pseudopodia, sluggish, undirected movement, and more vacuolated but with no
red blood cell

66
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Free-living pathogenic amoeba penetrating by nasal mocusa, migrate to the brain through the olfactory nerve
causing what type of infection?

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  • PAM (Primary amebic meningoencephalitis)
67
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Considered as the Gold standard means of diagnosing Trichomonas infection?

68
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How many stages is involved in classical malarial paroxysm

69
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The age of the erythrocyte in P.vivax and P.ovale infection

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  • It can only only infect the all young red blood cells
70
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What is the Gold standard test in assessing malaria?

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  • Blood smear (thick and thin)
71
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Presence of 6 to 12 merozoites in rosette

72
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Which are the STH (Soil Transmitted Helminths) except

73
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Quantitative diagnosis in terms of the intensity of helminth infection

74
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Treatment of Ascaris infection can be made with a dose of the following broad spectrum anti-helminthic drugs
except

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  • Praziquantel
75
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Common symptom of Paragonimus infection

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  • Chest pain, chronic cough, and hemoptysis
76
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Hookworm infection involves the following sites of the body except

77
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This allows the hatching of the larva utilizing your filter paper

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  • Harada-Mori technique
78
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Indicate the parasite which may cause human liver infection

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  • Fasciola hepatica
79
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A comprehensive control of STH infection

80
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True among Stercoralis where the female produce eggs without fertilization

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  • Parthenogenesis
81
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Intractable, painless intermittent diarrhea accompanied by watery and bloody stool

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  • Cochin-china
82
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The female worm migrates to the perianal area, one side is flattened, while the other side is convex

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  • Enterobius
83
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A symdrome experience with body fatigue, malaise, fever reffered to as a snail fever

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  • Katayama fever (cause by Japonicum)
84
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Wuchereria in the pheripheral blood circulation where it is pick up and ingested by the appropriate mosquito
vector during a blood myth

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  • Microfilariae
85
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What is being release when your Saginata egg are ingested by catodes

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  • Oncosphere
86
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Human cysticercosis occurs in infection with

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  • Taenia solium
87
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The indirect cycle of H.nana is usually via

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  • The ingestion of the
    intermediate host
88
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Mode of transmission of heterophyes

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  • Fish carrying the Metacercariae
89
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The natural release of cercaria for Schistosome usually happens at

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  • Night time
90
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Hepatica and Fasciolopsis look very much alike with the ova of

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  • Fasciola gigantica
91
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How do you assess Taenia saginata

92
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Morphological forms of pinworm that can be isolated using Scotch tape?

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  • Adult and Egg
93
Q

Which among the rhabdi larva of the intestinal helminth has a longer buccal cavity

94
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Among the choices, which is viviparous

A
  • Trichinella
95
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The vector responsible in carrying medinensis which can be ingested by human in contaminated drinking
water

96
Q

The following stages in the life cycle of fluke occurs in the snails tissue except

A
  • Metacercaria
97
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Which among the snail becomes the second intermediate host of ilocanum

A
  • Susong pampang and kuhol

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