PROTOZOA + MALARIA Flashcards
On the outer edge
Accole
A small, ovoid, nonflagellated form of the order Kinetoplastid flagellata. Notable structures include a mitochondrial kinetoplastid and a large nucleus. Also called Leishman-Donovan body or leishmanial form
Amastigote
An organism having a hardsegmented exoskeleton and paired, jointed legs.
Athropod
The intracellular portion of a flagellum.
Axoneme
The axial rod functioning as a support in flagellates
Axostyle
The basal body origin of the flagella that supports the undulating membrane in kinetoplastid flagellates
Blepharoplast
Slowly multiplying intracellular trophozoites of Toxoplasma gondii; intracellular tissue cysts in immune hosts contain bradyzoites that continue dividing within the cyst. Bradyzoites are also found in sarcocysts
Bradyzoites
Basophilic nuclear DNA
Chromatin
Rod-shaped structures of condensed RNA material within the cytoplasm of some ameba cysts.
Chromatid bars
Multiple hairlike processes attached to a surface of a cell; functions for motility through fluids at the surface of a protozoon.
Cilia
A phylum containing protozoa that move by means of cilia; they have two dissimilar nuclei.
Cillophora
the stage of Plasmodium spp. that develops inliver cells from the inoculated sporozoites. Also called the exoerythrocytic stage or tissue stage.
cryptozoite
Pertaining to the skin.
cutaneous
The immotile stage protected by a resistant cyst wall formed by the parasite. in this stage, the protozoa are readily transmitted to a new host.
cyst
The immotile stage protected by a resistant cyst wall formed by the parasite. in this stage, the protozoa are readily transmitted to a new host.
cyst
The immotile stage protected by a resistant cyst wall formed by the parasite. in this stage, the protozoa are readily transmitted to a new host.
cyst
rudimentary mouth
cytosomes
a disorder marked by bloody diarrhea or mucus in feces
dysentery
The gelatinous cytoplasmic material beneath the cell membrane.
ectoplasm
The fluid inner cytoplasmic material in a cell.
endoplasm
The small massof chromatin within thenucleus, comparable to a nucleolus of metazoan cells (also termed karyosome).
endosome
flatenned, spindle-shaped, flagellated forms seen primarily ni the gut (e.g., ni thereduviid bug) or salivary glands (e.g., ni the tsetse fly) oftheinsect vectors in the life cycle of trypanosomes; theyhave an undulatingmembrane that extends
from theflagellum (attached alongthe anterior half of the organism) to the small kinetoplast located just anteriorly tothe larger nucleus located at the midpoint of the organism.
epimastigote
Transformation from a cyst to a trophozoite after the cystic form has been swallowed by the host.
excystation
the process whereby a sporozoan microgametocyte releases haploid flagellated microgametes that can fertilize a macrogamete and thus form a diploid zygote (ookinete).
exflagellation
an extension of ectoplasm that provides locomotion; resembles atail that moves with a whiplike motion.
flagellum
Objects that canadsorb and harbor organisms and cause human infectionthrough direct contact (e.g., doorknob, pencil, towel).
formites
mature sex cells
gametes
a sex cell produce gametes
gametocyte
the phase of the development cycle of the malarial and coccidial parasite in the human In which male and female gametocytes are formed.
gametogony
long-surviving modified liver schizonts of P. vivax and. ovale that are the source of relapsing infections in these species.
hypnozoites
an accessory body found in many protozoa, especially in the family Trypanosomatidae, consisting of a large mitochondrion next to the basal granule (blepharoplast) of the anterior or undulating membrane flagellum; contains mitochondrial DNA. 30. A subphylum containing organisms that move by means of one or more flagella.
kinetoplast
Asexual multiplication in coccidian life cycle. Usually occurs In intestinalepithellum.
merogony