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1
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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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3
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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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7
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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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11
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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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13
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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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Relapsing malaria

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P. vivax, ovale (hypnozoite)

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24
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Banana-shaped gametocyte

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P. falciparum

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25
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Smear for disease identification/detection in Plasmodium

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thick smear

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Smear for species ID

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thin smear

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Schuffner dots

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P. vivax, ovale (hypnozoite)

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Maurer dots

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P. falciparum

29
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Ziemann dots

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P. malariae

30
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Blackwater fever

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P. falciparum

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DOC for P. vivax, ovale

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Chloroquine + Primaquine

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DOC for chloroquine-resistant malariae

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Quinine/Mefloquine + Doxycycline

33
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DOC for multidrug-resistant malaria

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Doxycycline

34
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Toxoplasma, transmission

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Raw meat, contaminated food, transplacental

35
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Toxoplasma, infective

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Oocyst

36
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Toxoplasma, diagnostice stage

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Bradyzoite

37
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Diagnostic of choice in Toxoplasma

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IgM antibody

38
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Ring-enhancing lesion in encephalitis

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Toxoplasma

39
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Encephalitis, intracranial calcification, hydrocephalus, stillbirth

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Congenital toxoplasmosis

40
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DOC in Toxoplasma

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Sulfadiazine + Pyrimethamine

41
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Trypanosoma cruzi, transmission

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reduviid bug, triatoma

42
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Trypanosoma cruzi, infective stage

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Trypomastigote

43
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Trypanosoma cruzi, diagnostic stage

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Trypomastigote

44
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Chaga’s disease

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Trypanosoma cruzi

45
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Periorbital edema in Chaga’s disease

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Romania sign

46
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Most frequently and severely affected tissue in Trypanosoma

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Cardiac muscle

47
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DOC for Trypanosoma cruzi

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Nifurtimox

48
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Winterbottom sign, Mott cells, Kerandel sign in

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Trypanosoma brucei

49
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Sleeping sickness

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Trypanosoma brucei

50
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Trypanosoma brucei, transmission

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Tsetse fly (Glossina fly)

51
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Trypanosoma brucei, infective stage

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Trypomastigote

52
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Trypanosoma brucei, diagnostic

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Trypomastigote

53
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DOC in CNS sleeping sickness

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W, Eflornithine; E, Melarsoprol

54
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MCC of redtide in PH

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Pyrodinium bahamense var compressum

55
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Paralytic shellfish syndrome toxin

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Saxitoxin

56
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Neurotoxic shellfish syndrome toxin

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Brevetoxin

57
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Amnesic shellfish syndrome toxin

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Domoic acid

58
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Diarrheic shellfish syndrome toxin

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Okadaic acid

59
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Only ciliated protozoan to cause human disease

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Balantidium coli

60
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Maltese cross, Ixodes tick

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Babesia microti

61
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DOC in Leishmaniasis

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Sodium Stibogluconate

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