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1
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What are the development stages of the protozoa?

A

Trophozoite and cyst

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2
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What are the properties of the trophozoite?

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Can move, feed, multiply and die

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3
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What are the properties of the cyst?

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Is responsible for surviving in unfavorable environment, not showing biochemical
activity is a dormant structure

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4
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How can the protozoa be classified?

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By the type of movement: amoeba, ciliate, flagellate and sporozoa

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5
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List two amoebas

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Entamoaeba sp., Acantamoeba sp., Naegleria sp

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6
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What is the causative agent of amoebic dysentery?

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Entamoeba histolytica

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What can Entamoeba histolytica cause?

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amoebic dysentery, liver, lung and brain abscess

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What is the causative agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis?

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Naegleria fowleri

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What is the causative agent of amoebic keratitis?

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Acanthamoeba castellani

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10
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Which protozoa can cause steatorrhea?

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Giardia lamblia

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11
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What is the treatment of giardiasis?

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Metronidazole

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12
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Which protozoon can cause prostatitis?

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Trichomonas vaginalis

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13
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Which protozoon can spread by sexual contact?

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Trichomonas vaginalis

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14
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Which protozoa can spread by the bite of sand fly?

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Leishmania sp.

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15
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What kind of disease can be caused by Leishmania sp.?

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Cutan, mucocutan and visceral leishmaniosis

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16
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How can leishmaniosis diagnose?

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Giemsa-staining of biopsied material

17
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Treatment of leishmaniosis?

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stibogluconate in combination with g-IFN and amphotericin-B

18
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What are the causative agent of Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)?

A

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, Trypanosoma brucei rhodensiense

19
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How can the sleeping sickness spread?

A

By the bite of tsetse fly

20
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What are the symptoms of sleeping sickness?

A

lethargy, meningoencephalitis, dementia, somnolence, coma

21
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What is the treatment of sleeping sickness?

A

Suramin, melarsoprol

22
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What is the causative agent of Chagas diseases?

A

Trypansoma cruzi

23
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How can spread the Chagas disease?

A

By the feces of the kissing bug during the bite

24
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What is the treatment of Chagas disease?

A

Nifurtimox, the chronic stage is untreatable

25
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What kind of diseases can be caused by Cryptosporidium parvum?

A

watery diarrhea which lasts to 1-2 week

26
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What is the treatment of cryptosporidiosis?

A

Oral rehydration

27
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What is the final host of Toxoplasma gondii?

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Cats

28
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In which population can Toxoplasma cause serious disease?

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In pregnant women and in immunocompromised population

29
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What is the treatment of toxoplasmosis?

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Spiramycin, pyrimethamine combined with sulphonamide

30
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How can malaria spread?

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By the bite of Anopheles mosquito, transplacental and by transfusion

31
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What are the symptoms of malaria (4 symptoms)?

A

periodic high fever, chills, head ache pain in joints and muscle, anaemia, hepatomegaly,
splenomegaly, kidney failure

32
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How can malaria diagnose?

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blood: thick droplet, thin film stained by Giemsa, IF, PCR

33
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What is the treatment of malaria?

A

chloroquine, mefloquine and artemisin, hypnozoites by primaquine

34
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Prevention of malaria by chemoprophylaxis?

A

chloroquine, mefloquine, doxycycline

35
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Prevention of malaria by vaccine?

A

Available vaccine since 2018 against Plasmodium falciparum. The content of the vaccine is
a fusion protein.

36
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How can Balantidium coli spread?

A

By fruits, vegetable contaminated by pig manure or by fecal oral route

37
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What are the symptoms of balantidiasis?

A

dysentery with abdominal pain, tenesmus

38
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Treatment of balantidiasis?

A

metronidazole, tetracycline

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