Pathogenic Protozoa

Question 1

Toxoplasma are often found in _____ feces; pregnant women should avoid them because their Tachyzoites can invade placenta

Answer 1

Cat

Question 2

3 Presentations of Leishmania?

Answer 2

Lesions in skin, Mucous, or Viscera

Question 3

American Trypomanosomiasis is known as _____ disease

Answer 3

Chagas’

Question 4

When Trypanosoma Brucei is in the fly it’s a _____mastigote and when it’s in mammals it’s a ____mastigote

Answer 4

Epi, Trypo

Question 5

Plasmodium spp. causes _____

Answer 5

Malaria

Question 6

Why do plasmodium Vivax and Ovale require “radical cures”

Answer 6

They linger in the liver longer as sporozoites

Question 7

Plasmodium make micro and macro gametocytes that sexually reproduce inside ______

Answer 7

Mosquitoes

Question 8

What’s the difference between Giardia and Trichomonas?

Answer 8

Only Giardia has a “Cyst” form.

Question 9

Naegleria and Acanthamoeba both cause Amoebic _______

Answer 9

Meningoencephalitis

Question 10

Plasmodium Babesia, Toxoplasma Sarcocystis, and Cryptosporidium Isospora are all _____

Answer 10

Apicomplexa

Question 11

Mnemonic to remember Hemoflag. Morpho stages?

Answer 11

Hemoflags make A PET

Question 12

The Trypanosoma Brucei use the ____ ____ as their vector and cause African Sleeping Sickness

Answer 12

Tsetse Fly

Question 13

Name the Quartan Malaria, which has Fevers that occur at ____ hr intervals

Answer 13

Malariae, 72

Question 14

What 2 things differentiates Babesia from Maleria?

Answer 14

• Only RBCs attacked by Bab

- No Shizonts in Bab

Question 15

For Apicomplexa there’s first ______ that grow without division, then _____ cleave into multiple progeny

Answer 15

Trophozoites, Schizonts

Question 16

A Kinetoplast is a _____ + a ______ ____

Answer 16

Mitochondrion, Basal Body

Question 17

Plasmodium Knowlesi has a replication cycle that lasts _____ hrs. It is a monkey parasite.

Answer 17

24

Question 18

Giardia reproduces in the _____ of humans as the cyst form, and then spread in the Trophozoite form

Answer 18

GI

Question 19

3 main symptoms of Chagas’ Disease

Answer 19

1. Eyelid swelling
2. Muscle/Febrile Illness
3. Heart dysfunction

Question 20

In Trypanosoma Cruzii (American), the Traitoma bug has the _____mastigotes and the mammal tissue have the ____mastigotes

Answer 20

Pro, Ama

Question 21

What is the vector for Babesia?

Answer 21

Ticks

Question 22

_____ Coli is the only ciliate species that causes disease in humans (fecally)

Answer 22

Balantidium

Question 23

Plasmodium Falciparum is the most _____

Answer 23

Virulent

Question 24

4 Morphological States of Hemoflagellates?

Answer 24

1. Amastigote
2. Promastigote
3. Epimastigote
4. Trypomastigote

“A PET”

Question 25

Name the 3 Terian malarias

Answer 25

1. Vivax 2. Ovale 3. Falciparum

Question 26

2 Key identifying characteristic of Entamoeba Histolytica?

Answer 26

Four Nuclei with Chromatoid Bodies in Cyst | - Central dot in trophozoic

Question 27

Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Cystoisospora are all Apicomplexa that cause _____

Answer 27

Diarrhea

Question 28

Leishmaniasis is similar to American Trypomano because you have Promastigotes in the gut of the fly and the _______gotes in mammals

Answer 28

Amasti

Question 29

Why is Entamoeba Histolytica more serious than Giardia, even though they both transition through cysts and trophozoites?

Answer 29

Because it can aggressively invade intestinal cell walls.

Question 30

Why is Plasmodium Falciparum hard to detect in peripheral blood?

Answer 30

- Aggregate to endothelium in capillaries

Question 31

What makes Microsporidia's infection route unique?

Answer 31

Uses hollow tube to insert Sporoplasm

Question 32

Among the Hemoflagellates, what's a key difference between Trypanosoma and Leishmania?

Answer 32

- Tryp multply outside cells | - Leish multiply inside

Question 33

What's the difference between a definitive Host and an Intermediate Host?

Answer 33

Definitve=Sexual cycles | Intermediate= Asexual

Question 34

Malaria initially starts in the _____ and then spreads into the _____

Answer 34

Liver, Erythrocytes