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Week Six: Protista Flashcards

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What are protozoans?

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Unicellular, microscopic, most are free living

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What are the four phyla under Protista?

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Flagellated protozoans
Ameboid protozoans
Apicomplexans
Ciliated protozoans

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What are the two kingdoms protozoa fall under?

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Animalia and protista

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What are the most important phylums in veterinary parasitology?

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Sarcomastugophora (flagellates and amoebae)
Ciliophora (ciliates)
Apicomplexa (coccidia, malarial organisms, piroplasms)

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Flagellates only move in..

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Liquid/fluids

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Mastigophora Flagellates:

Kingdom, phylum, subphylum

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Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Sarcomastigophora
Subphylum: Mastigophora

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What do flagellates look like?

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Pear/bullet shaped

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What are some examples of flagellates?

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Leishmania
Trypanosoma
Trichomonas
Histomonas
Giardia spp.
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Sarcodina Amoebae

Kingdom, phylum, superclass

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Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Sarcomastigophora
Superclass: sarcodina

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How do amoebae move?

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By their pseudopodia

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What are the two forms of amoebae?

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Trophozoite (mobile)

Cyst (resistant, survives in adverse conditions in the external environment)

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What do amoebae look like?

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Blob like, amorphous

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What is entamoeba coli?

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Non pathogenic amoeba found in humans and pigs

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What is the most important parasitic amoeba of humans?

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Entamoeba histolytica

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Ciliophora ciliates

Kingdom, phylum, morphology, how do they move

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Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: ciliphora

Have two types of nuclei (macro and micro)
Movement through cilia

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What are the two forms of ciliphora ciliates?

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Trophozoite (dart, twirl speedily in liquid media)

Cyst

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Apicomplexa apicomplexans

Kingdom, phylum, who do they parasitize, location in body

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Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: apicomplexa
Domesticated animals
Found in intestines and blood cells

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What is different about apicomplexa apicomplexans?

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Complex life cycles, no visible locomotory organelles

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What do apicomplexa look like?

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Banana, comma, boomerang

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Toxoplasma is an example of what Protozoa?

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Apicomplexa apicomplexans

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What are the most diverse and most complicated protozoans?

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Apicomplexa apicomplexans

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Flagellates
Parasite: Giardia spp.
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs, cats, horses, ruminants, exotics
Location: intestinal mucosa
Transmission route: ingestion of oocysts
Common name: Giardia

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Amoebae
Parasite: Entamoeba histolytica
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs, cats, primates, humans
Location: large intestines
Transmission route: ingestion of cysts
Common name: entamoeba

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Ciliates
Parasite: Balantidium coli
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs and cats
Location: cecum and colon (large intestine of swine*)
Transmission route: ingestion of cysts
Common name: Balantidium

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Apicomplexans
Parasite: Cystoisospora spp.
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs, cats, and swine
Location: small intestines
TR: ingestion of oocysts
CN: Coccidia

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Apicomplexans
Parasite: Toxoplasma Gondii
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: feline
Location: intestines
TR: ingestion of sporulated oocysts
CN: Toxoplasma

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Apicomplexans
Parasite: Cryptosporidium spp
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs, cats, sheep, swine, birds, guinea pigs, snakes, mice
Location: Small intestine
TR: ingestion of oocytes
CN: cryptosporidium

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Apicomplexans
Parasite: Sarcocystis spp.
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs and cats
Location: small intestine
TR: ingestion of muscles of horses, pigs, and ruminants
CN: Sarcocystis

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Flagellates
Parasite: Leishmania spp.
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dog
Location: capillaries and spleen, internal organs, WBC
TR: bite of infective intermediate host (phlebotomine sand fleas)
CN: leishmania

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Flagellates
Parasite: Trypanosoma Cruzi
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: humans and dogs
Location: peripheral blood
TR: ingestion of intermediate host or feces of bug left on final host
CN: Trypanosome

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Apicomplexans
Parasite: Cytauxzoon felis
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: cats
Location: RBC
TR: bite from infective intermediate host (tick)
CN: Cytauxzoon

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Apicomplexans
Parasite: Babesia Canis
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs
Location: RBC
TR: bite of infective intermediate host (tick)
CN: Babesia

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Apicomplexans
Parasite: Hepatozoon Canis, americanum
Host, location, transmission route, common name

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Host: dogs
Location: WBC, endothelial cells (spleen, bone marrow, liver)
TR: ingestion of infective intermediate host (tick)
CN: Hepatozoon

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