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Brownian movement

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Entamoeba histolytica

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E. histolytica, transmission

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Fecal-oral

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E. histolytica, infective stage

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Mature cyst

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E. histolytica, diagnostic stage

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Trophozoite

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MC extraintestinal form of E. histolytica

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Amebic liver abscess

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Flask-shaped colon ulcers

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Entamoeba histolytica

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DOC for E. histolytica, carrier

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Diloxanide

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DOC for E. histolytica, active

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Metronidazole

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9
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Falling leaf motility

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Giardia lamblia

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10
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Backpacker’s diarrhea

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Giardia lamblia

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G. lamblia, transmission

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Fecal-oral

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12
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G. lamblia, infective stage

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Cyst

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G. lamblia, diagnostic stage

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Trophozoite, pear-shaped, grandfather facies

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14
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Most important parasitic disease in man

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Plasmodium

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15
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Sexual stage of Plasmodium

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Sporogony, mosquitoes

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Asexual stages of Plasmodium

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Schizogony, Gametogony, human

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17
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Plasmodium, transmission

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Anopheles flavirostris minimus

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18
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Plasmodium, infective

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Sporozoite

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19
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Plasmodium, diagnostic stage

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Trophozoite

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20
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Quartan plasmodium

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P. malariae

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21
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Cerebral malaria

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P. falciparum

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22
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Recrudescent malaria

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P. falciparum, malariae

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23
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Relapsing malaria

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P. vivax, ovale (hypnozoite)

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Banana-shaped gametocyte

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P. falciparum

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Smear for disease identification/detection in Plasmodium
thick smear
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Smear for species ID
thin smear
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Schuffner dots
P. vivax, ovale (hypnozoite)
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Maurer dots
P. falciparum
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Ziemann dots
P. malariae
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Blackwater fever
P. falciparum
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DOC for P. vivax, ovale
Chloroquine + Primaquine
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DOC for chloroquine-resistant malariae
Quinine/Mefloquine + Doxycycline
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DOC for multidrug-resistant malaria
Doxycycline
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Toxoplasma, transmission
Raw meat, contaminated food, transplacental
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Toxoplasma, infective
Oocyst
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Toxoplasma, diagnostice stage
Bradyzoite
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Diagnostic of choice in Toxoplasma
IgM antibody
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Ring-enhancing lesion in encephalitis
Toxoplasma
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Encephalitis, intracranial calcification, hydrocephalus, stillbirth
Congenital toxoplasmosis
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DOC in Toxoplasma
Sulfadiazine + Pyrimethamine
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Trypanosoma cruzi, transmission
reduviid bug, triatoma
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Trypanosoma cruzi, infective stage
Trypomastigote
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Trypanosoma cruzi, diagnostic stage
Trypomastigote
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Chaga's disease
Trypanosoma cruzi
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Periorbital edema in Chaga's disease
Romania sign
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Most frequently and severely affected tissue in Trypanosoma
Cardiac muscle
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DOC for Trypanosoma cruzi
Nifurtimox
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Winterbottom sign, Mott cells, Kerandel sign in
Trypanosoma brucei
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Sleeping sickness
Trypanosoma brucei
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Trypanosoma brucei, transmission
Tsetse fly (Glossina fly)
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Trypanosoma brucei, infective stage
Trypomastigote
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Trypanosoma brucei, diagnostic
Trypomastigote
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DOC in CNS sleeping sickness
W, Eflornithine; E, Melarsoprol
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MCC of redtide in PH
Pyrodinium bahamense var compressum
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Paralytic shellfish syndrome toxin
Saxitoxin
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Neurotoxic shellfish syndrome toxin
Brevetoxin
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Amnesic shellfish syndrome toxin
Domoic acid
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Diarrheic shellfish syndrome toxin
Okadaic acid
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Only ciliated protozoan to cause human disease
Balantidium coli
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Maltese cross, Ixodes tick
Babesia microti
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DOC in Leishmaniasis
Sodium Stibogluconate

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