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Parisitology Flashcards

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Commensalism

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One organism derives benefit from the association, whereas the other neither benifits or is harmed

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What parasitic disease kills more people worldwide than any other parasitic infection

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Malaria

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Malaria

Responsible organism and transmission

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Plasmodium

Mosquito bites

Protozoal disease

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African sleeping sickness

Responsible organism and transmission

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Trypanosoma brucei

Tsetse fly bites

Protozoal disease

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Chaga’s disease

Responsible organism and transmission

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Trypanosoma cruzi

Kising bug feces

Protozoal disease

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Shistosomiasis

Responsible organism and transmission

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Shistosoma

Transmitted through water

Parasitic worm disease

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Filariasis

Responsible organism and transmission

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Wuchereria bancrofti

Transmitted through mosquito bites

Parasitic worm disease

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River blindness

Responsible organism and transmission

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Onchocerca volvulus

Transmitted through Blackfly bites

Parasitic worm disease

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9
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Hookworm infection

Responsible organism and transmission

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Necator americanus

Contact with contaminated soil

Parasitic worm disease

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Ascariasis

Responsible organism and transmission

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Ascaris lumbricoides

Contact with contaminated soil

Parasitic worm disease

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ID organisms in figure

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  1. Trypanosoma
  2. Leishmania
  3. Plasmodium/crytosporidium
  4. Trichomonas
  5. Giardia
  6. Entamoeba
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12
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ID organisms in figure

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Examples of parasitic helminths

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13
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Nematodes

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Roundworm

Helminths

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Flatworms

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Trematodes (i.e. flukes) and cestodes (i.e. tapeworms)

Helminths

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Life cycle of giardia

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Simple/direct

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Simple/direct parasitic life cycle implications

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  1. Must be able to leave its host
  2. Must be able to survive in the external environment
  3. Must be able to locate and establish itself in a new host
17
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Complex/indirect parasitic life cycle

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Has two or more host

-A secondary (intermediate) host

-A primary (definitive) host - typically where sexual replication take place

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Life cycle of malaria

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Complex/indirect

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Top five neglected parasitic infections w/i the US

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  1. Chagas disease
  2. Neurocysticerocosis
  3. Toxocariasis
  4. Toxoplasmosis
  5. Trichomoniasis
20
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Leishmaniasis

Responsible organism and transmission

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Leishmania

Sandfly bites

Protozoal disease

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