Protozoa Flashcards by Karlee Searle | Brainscape

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Romaña Sign

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Periorbital inflammation in T. cruzi

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Cats (that hunt) are definitive hosts

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Nematodes

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Roundworms

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Retinochoroiditis

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Winterbottom’s sign

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T. bruceii

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Promastigotes to amastigotes in RES

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Leishmaniasis

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Splashparks

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Cryptosporidium

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Looks like cherries

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Cryptosporidium

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Cestodes

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Segmented flatworm (tapeworm)

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Can cause leprosy-like facial features

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L. tropica

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Granular, stippling, younger cells

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Plasmodium vivax

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Transmitted by pinworms

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Dientamoeba fragila

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Kala azar

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Visceral leishmaniasis L. donovani

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Imported fruits

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Cyclospora

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Resistant to chlorination but iodination works

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Giardia intestinalis

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Tachyzoite and bradyzoite

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Sandfly fever

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Leishmaniasis

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Baghdad Boils (punched in)

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Cutaneous leishmaniasis (L. tropica)

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Mosquito is definitive host

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Plasmodium (sexual)

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Beaver fever

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giardia intestinalis

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Anopheles mosquito

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Plasmodium

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Tsetse fly

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T. brucei

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Trematodes

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Non-segmented flatworms (flukes)

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Snorkelling in warm fresh water

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Meningitis, usually fatal, free living amoeba

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Kissing bug

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Chagas disease - T. cruzi

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Hatchet cell wings

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Tsetse fly - t. brucei sleeping sickness

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No cyst form

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Dientamoeba fragila

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Symptoms range from dysenteric to nondysenteric

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Entamoeba histolytica

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Free living amoebae

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Neglaria fowleri

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Delicate ring structures

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P. falciparum

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Injects sporozoites, undergo replicative cycle, schizont cysts fill with merozoites, merozoites feed on heme

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Plasmodium species