Protists Flashcards
Which protists cause diarrhea?
Giardia
Entamoeba hystoltica
Cryptosporidium
Cyclospora
Which protist that causes diarrhea is acquired by ingestion of cysts, is flagellated and attaches to epithelial intestinal cells?
Giardia
Which protist that causes diarrhea moves via amoeboid movement?
Entamoeba histolytica
What about trypanosomes makes them very difficult to treat?
Antigenic variation of their protein coat
Do any fungi have arthropod vectors?
NO!
What is the vector of African sleeping sickness and what is another name for the disease?
tetse fly
Trypanomyosis
______________ ‘s vector is the sand fly
Leishmaniasis
What is characteristic of Leishamaniasis?
Cutaneous sores, typically heals on its own even though sores remain present throughout life.
Have life long immunity
___________’s vector is the kissing bug and is an example of a _________ protist infection
Chaga’s disease
Trypanosome
What are two examples of trypanosome infections?
African sleeping sickness and Chaga’s disease
What is the main cause of the diarrhea seen in the protists that cause these diahhrea symptoms
Ingestion of cysts
When making a home made saline solution, one that uses it may acquire ________ due to the brain eating _________ that is typically acquired through fresh water
Keratitis ; acanthamoeba
What causes malaria?
Plasmodium
What is the vector of plasmodium? And at what stage in plasmodium’ life cycle is it in when the vector trasmits it to the host?
Anopheles mosquitoe
Mosquitoes inject sporozoites
Once the sporozoites are in the body they go to the _______ and become _______ that then infect the RBC’s
Hepatocytes; merozoites
