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Includes Giardia and Trichomonas and their distant relatives Trypanosoma and Leishmania

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Flagellates

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Amoeboid at one stage of its life cycle and flagellated at another, may be more closely related to flagellates than to other amoeboid organisms

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Naegleria

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Includes Entamoeba (the cause of ‘amoebic dysentery’), Acanthamoeba, and Hartmanella

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Amoebozoa

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What are the three types of alveolates?

-named for their cortical alveoli and flattened membrane-bound sacs

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Apicomplexa, Cilliates, and Dinoflagellates

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Apicomplexa includes one of the most significant pathogens worldwide, the cause of malaria, which is called

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Plasmodium

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Human apicomplexa pathogens are members of the class Sporozoa and most of the subclass Coccidia, so are sometimes called

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Sporozoans or coccidia

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Includes the intestinal pathogen Balantidium and the familiar non-pathogen Paramecium

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Ciliates

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Flagellated photosynthetic >algae=; cause >red tides= that kill marine organisms

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Dinoflagellates

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Not known to cause human infections but secrete toxins which cause human illness either from direct exposure or from consumption of fish or shellfish which have fed on them

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Dinoflagellates

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Tiny intracellular parasites which lack mitochondria

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Microsporidia

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What are three other major groups of eukaryotes?

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  1. ) Green algae, red algae, and plants
  2. ) Rhizaria or cercozoa
  3. ) Heterokonts
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Amoeboid organisms, many with elaborate shells

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Rhizaria or cercozoa

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Made up of brown algae, diatoms, and their relatives, who, like Dinoflagellates, became photosynthetic via symbiosis not with bacteria but with eukaryotic algae

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Heterokonts

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Organism used by another as a source of nutrition and protection

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Host

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Organism that uses another as a source of nutrition and protection, with harm to the host

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Parasite

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Organism that uses another as a source of nutrition and protection, without harm to the host

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Commensal

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Organism in which a parasite replicates in nature, from which it is transmitted to humans

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Reservoir

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Organism which transmits a parasite to humans; it may or may not be a host

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Vector

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Host in which parasite undergoes sexual cycle (meiosis + fertilization)

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Definitive host

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Host in which parasite multiplies asexually

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Intermediate host

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Growing/multiplying form of a parasitic protozoan

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Trophozoite

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Non-growing form, specialized for resistance to unfavorable environments and dispersal

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Cyst

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Cells of a single species may take on different morphology at different stages of the life cycle. Some protozoa reproduce in an obligate cycle between two

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Host species

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In this situation, forms produced by growth in the first host are

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Infectious for the second

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Microscopic examination is often the key to diagnosis of

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Protozoa infection

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To check stool for protozoa, we perform an

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O and P workup (Ova and parasites)

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Unfixed “wet mounts” (unstained and stained with iodine) of fresh material to visualize live organisms

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O and P workup

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Called the “backpackers” diarrhea

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Giardia lamblia

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Infections acquired by consuming contaminated water

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Giardia

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Giardia multiplies in the lumen of the intestine; cells and cysts are shed in

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Feces

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Cells have two nuclei (giving them the appearance of a ‘face’ under the microscope) and a large ventral ‘sucker disk’ with which they adhere to the intestinal mucosa

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Giardia

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Acute or (in AIDS) chronic diarrhea. Organisms adhere to brush border

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Giardia infection

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The diarrhea seen in a giardia infection is from

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Maladsorption

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Sexually transmitted infection that multiplies on GU mucosal membranes

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Trichomonas Vaginalis

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Cells have a tuft of flagella at one end and an ‘undulating membrane’ which extends part-way down the cell

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Trichomonas Vaginalis

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In women, trichomonas vaginalis infection is typically limited to the

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External genitalia, vagina, and cervix

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Symptoms are itching or burning and a pale yellow, watery discharge; many infections asymptomatic

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Trichomonas Vaginalis infection

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Transmitted by insect vectors; multiply in both vector and host

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Hemoflagellates

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Produces bloodstream infections and multiply outside cells

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Trypanosoma

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Produce tissue infections and multiply intracellularly

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Leishmania

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Hemoflagellate cells are elongate, with a single flagellum which originates in a unique organelle called the

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Kinetoplast

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Visible as a dark short rod in stained cells

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The kinetoplast

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What are the four stages that a hemoflagellate goes through

-Defined by the relative positions of the kinetoplast and nucleus, and the presence or absence of and flagellum and undulating membrane

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Amastigote, Promastigote, Epimastigote, and Trypomastigote

Pneumonic “You don’t want a hemoflagellate as A PET

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Characterized by the central localization of the nucleus and kinetoplast

-No flagellum

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Amastigote

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Has the kinetoplast at the anterior end of the cell

  • Flagellum is present
  • No undulating membrane
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Promastigote

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The kinetoplast migrates centrally

-Has flagellum with short unulating membrane

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Epimastigote

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Has the kinetoplast at the posterior end of the cell

-Undulating membrane extends the full length of the cell

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Trypomastigote

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What are the three types of Trypnosoma brucei

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T. b. brucei, T. b. rhodesiense, and T. b. gambesiense

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Causes the infection Ngana, a disease of wild or domestic ungulates

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T. b. brucei

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Rapidly-progressive human infections

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T. b. rhodesiense

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Slowly progressive human infections

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T. b. Gambesiense

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Multiply in the gut and salivary glands of the tsetse fly glossinia

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Epimastigotes

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Multiply in the bloodstream of mammals

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Trypomastigotes

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A localized inflammatory lesion; trypanosomes multiply at the site of the

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Tsetse fly bite

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The acute or bloodstream phase of disease can be long-lasting and is characterized by the signs and symptoms of chronic inflammation: fever, headache, muscle/joint pains, rash, anemia, leukocytosis, weight loss, enlarged lymph nodes, elevated ESR

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Trypanosoma brucei

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Enlarged posterior cervical lymph nodes are called

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Winterbottom’s sign

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Chronic or late stage african trypanosomes disease with invasion of the CNS. It progresses through lassitude, motor and reflex abnormalities, stupor, coma, and

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Death

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African trypanosomes evade the immune system by

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Phase variation

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The outer surface of bloodstream forms is covered with a single protein, the

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Variable Surface Glycoprotein (VSG)

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The genome contains 1-2 expressed copies of the VSG gene and several thousand silent copies which encode

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Antigenically distinct forms

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The form transmitted to humans by insect vectors occurs in a single

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Antigenic state

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As the immune system reacts to this antigen and begins to destroy trypanosomes, a rare recombination event between a silent copy and an expressed copy results in production of an entirely new antigenic form of the

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VSG

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In an experimental animal trypanosomes have been followed through many waves of parasitemia, each characterized by a distinct

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Surface antigen

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IgM levels in an infected person may be

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20x normal

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American trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease

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Trypanosoma cruzii

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Forms at the site of infection, with regional lymphadenitis as the organisms spread

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Primary lesion from T. cruzii

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The primary lesion may be transferred to the conjunctiva if the eye is rubbed with a contaminated finger, resulting in unilateral swelling of the eyelids. This is called

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Romana’s sign

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Multiply in the gut of the nocturnal, blood-sucking bug triatoma

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Promastigotes

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Multiply intracellularly, initially in muscle

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Amastigotes

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Characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, enlargement of liver and spleen

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Acute T. cruzii

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Characterized by invasion of the heart, leading to cardiac dysfunction, and /or the CNS, especially autonomic ganglia of abdominal viscera, leading to smooth muscle dysfunction and esophageal or intestinal enlargement

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Late T. cruzii disease

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T. cruzii infection is diagnosed by

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Seroconversion or muscle biopsy

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Leishmania causes visceral and muco-cutaneous infectrions. It is transferred via the

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Sandfly

74
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Produce visceral Leishmaiansis or Kala-Azar as a result of multiplication in liver, spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow, and other tissues

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L. donovani and L chagasii

75
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Amastigotes from these species in tissue are termed

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Leishman-Donovan (LD) bodies

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Widespread dermotropic Leishmanias cause ulcerative dermal lesions at the site of

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Infection

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A classic site for these ulcerative dermal lesions in the

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Back of the neck (chiclero ulcer)

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Lesions are often localized but may spread, or there may be granulomatous

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Satellite lesions

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Spreads from a cutaneous site of infection to the mucous membranes of the oral or nasal cavity and may remain latent there for years or decades, eventually to produce a spreading destructive lesion

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L. braziliensis

80
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These lesions from L. braziliensis are called

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Espundia

81
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Amoebas and Amoeboflagellates cause

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Amoebic dysentery

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The life cycle and epidemiology of Amoebas and Amoeboflagellates starts with the ingestion of

-From contaminated water or food

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Cysts

83
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In the colon cysts develop into

-Multiply and produce more cysts which are excreted in feces

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Amoeboid trophozoites

84
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Trophozoites of E. histolyica are larger than those of other species and contain ingested

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RBC’s rather than bacteria

85
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Differentiation of cysts relies on size and shape, number of nuclei, and presence or absence of a large

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Glycogen inclusion

86
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Cysts of E. histolytica are round, medium sized, don’t have much glycogen, and have

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4 nuclei

87
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Amoebas invade the intestinal epithelium wall at the base of a crypt, producing a small

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Ulcer

88
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They penetrate the muscularis mucosa and spread laterally to produce a flask-shaped

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Necrotic lesion

89
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Ulcers contain trophozoites; amoeboid cysts are formed only in the

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Intestinal lumen

90
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Caused by free-living amoebas of several genera: Naegleria, Hartmanella, Acanthamoeba. Infection usually results from swimming in natural waters

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Amoebic Meningoencephalitis

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In amoebic meningoencephalitis, amoebas enter the nose and sinuses and pass into the brain through the

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Cribiform plate

92
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Have been successfully used to treat Amoebic Meningoencephalitis

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Amphotericin and azoles

93
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Causes severe keratitis; some cases resulted from use of contact lens solution made with contaminated water

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Acanthamoeba

94
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Some dinoflagellates (photosynthetic protozoa) produce potent

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Toxins

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These can cause human and/or animal disease, contracted by contact with or consumption of organisms such as shellfish which have fed on these

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Dinoflagellates

96
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Has caused massive kills of fish

-Before its toxigenic properties were recognized it caused serious neurological poisoning among laboratory workers

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Pfeisteria piscidida

97
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Causes intestinal disease similar to that produced by E. histolytica

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Balantidium coli

98
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Trophozoites of B. coli are very large, with an indented feeding apparatus at one end and a large kidney-shaped

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Macronucleus

99
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Motion in wet mounts is smooth translation with rotation around the long axis of the cells.

-Cysts are large and round

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B. coli

100
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Named for the apical complex used to infect host cells

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Apicomplexa

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