Sporozoa

Question 1

Cause of malaria

Answer 1

Plasmodium

Question 2

IH & DH of Plasmodium

Answer 2

IH: sporozoites
DH: gameotcyte

Question 3

Symptoms and pathology of plasmodium

Answer 3

1. Recurrent chills and fever
2. Anemia, splenomegaly, joint pain
3. Cerebral malaria: RBC, organisms a d pigment block brain vessels
   Blackwater fever: intravascular hemolysis + hemoglobinuria

Question 4

Resistant to malaria

Answer 4

G6PD Deficiency
Fy null
Sickle cell disease

Question 5

Dormant stage
Found in liver
Once activated, releases merozoites
Responsible for relapse

Answer 5

Hypmozoites

Question 6

Mixed infection in plasmodium

Answer 6

P. Vivax and P. Falciparum

Question 7

Lab diagnosis of plasmodium

Answer 7

1. Examination of blood film (thick and thin blood film)
2. QBC: quantitative buffy coat (fluorochrome: acridinenirande)
3. Immunotests(optimal assay: detects pLDH= malarial organism, malaquick test)

Question 8

Prevalent worlwide
Single large ring succeeded by amoeboid form in pale large red cell

Answer 8

Plasmodium vivax

Question 9

Schuffner’s dots

Answer 9

P. Vivax

Question 10

Single large compact ring or band forms
Invades old RBCs
Schizont arranged around central pigment

Answer 10

P. Malariae

Question 11

Ziemanns dots

Answer 11

P. Malariae

Question 12

Prevalent in the philippines
Formation /double chromatin dots
Multiple parasitization of red cell
Infects all age of red cells

Answer 12

P. Falciparum

Question 13

Maurer’s dots (Stephen Chrostopher/Cuneiform)

Answer 13

P. Falciparum

Question 14

Single compact ring
Infected RBCs: serrated/fimbriated

Answer 14

Plasmodium ovale

Question 15

Schuffner’s dots/ James dots

Question 16

MOT OF babesia microti

Answer 16

Ixodes tick bite
Blood transfusion

Question 17

Symptoms and pathology of B. Microti

Answer 17

Headache & fever
Hemolytic anemia + hemoglobinuria