Protozoal Infections (Giemsa Stain) = PARASITES

Question 1

What is the stain for Protozoal infections?

Answer 1

Giemsa Stain

Question 2

Entamoeba histolytica

Answer 2

Amebiasis

VECTOR: Contaminated food / water

CYST = infective form

Dysentery

Question 3

Giardia lamblia

Answer 3

Giardiasis “Beaver Fever”

4 pairs of flagella

VECTOR: Hikers drinking stream water

CYST = infective form

Mucousy diarrhea

Question 4

Leishmania donovani !!!

Answer 4

Kala-Azar (Leishmaniasis)

VECTOR: Sandflies

Viscerotrophic = Delli-boyle

Question 5

Plasmodium vivax !

Answer 5

MC form of MALARIA

VECTOR: female ANOPHELES

SPOROZOITE = infective stage 
MEROZOITE = pothogenic stage 

Sickle Cell allele protects against malaria

H shaped vertebra

Question 6

Plasmodium falciparum !!

Answer 6

VECTOR: anopheles mosquito

F = most FATAL FORM
Black water fever (urinating oxidized blood)

Question 7

Toxoplasma gondii !

Answer 7

Toxoplasmosis

VECTOR: Cat feces

Miscarriages if 1st exposure and in first trimester

Question 8

Trypanosoma cruzi

Answer 8

Trypanosomiasis

VECTOR: Kissing “reduviid” bug

Chaga’s Disease

“Cruzin down the Chaga river looking for a Kiss”

Question 9

Trypanosoma gambiense

Answer 9

Trypanosomiasis

VECTOR: Tsetse fly

African sleeping sickness = neurological problems