PARASITOLOGY RATIONALE Flashcards
The agent of Chagas disease?
- Kissing Bug
Human infection with larva stage of Solium?
Cysticercosis
. Adult Schistosome that resides in the inferior mesentery vein?
- S. mansoni
A case of fish nematode infection that can be recovered during endoscopy?
Anisakis
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?
- Dracunculus medinensis
Ciliated trematode larva is capable of penetrating the tissue snail host?
Miracidium
Development of Cholangiocarcinoma?
- Clonorchis sinensis
The egg has the characteristics flattened operculum, can be isolated in the stole or the sputum?
- Paragonimus westermani.
The egg has resemblance with trichuris with gurgling stomach?
- Capillara pilipinensis
Pear-shaped organism, exhibiting falling-leaf motility?
Gardia
The presence of protozoan commonly in vacuolar form and the nuclei are found in the periphery?
Blastocystis hominis
Toxoplasma gondii infection can be acquired through the ingestion of ?
- Both (Oocysts and Tissue Cysts)
A disease affecting the reticuloendothelial system which you can find the amastigote and promastigote forms?
- Leishmania
The fusion of the male and the female gametocyte occurs in what host?
- Definitive host
The identifying malarial parasite on the thin blood film one should look in the following except?
- Appearance in the infective WBC
Infected Stages of the Parasite:
Hymenolipis nana
embryonated egg
Infected Stages of the Parasite:
Necator Americanus
filariform
Infected Stages of the Parasite:
Taena spp.
Cysticercus
Infected Stages of the Parasite:
Capillaria philippinensis
- Infected larva
The helminth with a buccal orifice with three lips?
Adult ascaris
Find the incorrect symptoms and diagnosis
Iron deficiency anemia for D.latum (because it is pernicious anemia)
Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.
Presence of operculum
D.latum
Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.
Sensitive to alcohol
Taena saginata
Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.
The only human tapeworm that completes its life cycle in the single host
H.nana
Match the Parasite to its corresponding characteristics.
Resembling like a whipworm
Trichuris trichura
Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.
Cyclops
D.latum
Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.
Sheep
Echinococcus
Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.
Human
- T.solium
Match the following parasite with its corresponding intermediate host.
Insect
H. nana
Causing protracted diarrhea among immunocompromised individuals such as those with AIDS except?
Chilomastix mesnili
What is the drug of choice in the treatment of tapeworm infection?
Praziquantel
What do you call a layer of cells between the plasma and the red blood cell after centrifugation?
Buffy coat
Choose the correct match of specie intermediate host diagnosis
H.diminuta- Flee- Direct fecal smea
Parasitic autoinfection with specie of hymenolepis happens when
- Embryonation of egg into the intestine.
Find the incorrect match in the organism and characteristic morphology
- Hymenolepis egg with striated shell
Blood samples for filarial diagnosis maybe taken during which of the following?
- Dependent on the specie of the parasite
Incorrect match between the organism and procedure?
- All are correct
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
- Wuchereria bancrofti