BIO 315 EXAM 1 NCSU
Chagas Disease ( Trypanosoma cruzi) - Correct Answers -PROTOZOA- bug,
intracellular, can infect cardiac tissue and years later have damage
Cysticercosis (Taenia solium) - Correct Answers -WORM - swallowing eggs from feces,
cysts develop on affected tissue, poor sanitation usually a factor
Taeniasis (Taenia solium) - Correct Answers -WORM - undercooked meat, poor
sanitation areas, digestive problems, pain in abdomen
Malaria - Correct Answers -PROTOZOAN - female mosquitoes first, then humans,
fever, nausea, chills, then usually death
Ascaris lumbricoides - Correct Answers -NEMATODE- humans, created a large
blockage and change in personality (Captain Cook)
Schistosoma hematobium (Schistosomiasis) - Correct Answers -Blood fluke
[trematode], penetrate skin, reside in bladder veins, blood in the urine, fibrosis; snails
are the intermediate hosts, lead to bladder cancer, female lives in curve of male
(Jericho & Akosomba & Ghana)
Toxocariasis (canis & cati) - Correct Answers -NEMATODE - Feces from infected host,
undercooked meat, dogs & cats then to humans, fever, coughing, sometimes
pneumonia with large numbers
Toxoplasmosis - Correct Answers -PROTOZOA - mother to child through
pregnancy/nursing, ingestion of the host from cat feces, from cats to humans, flu-like
symptoms and eye problems
Trichomoniasis - Correct Answers -PROTOZOAN - sexually transmitted disease;
causes inflammation of the genitourinary tract in both men and women
Bayliscacaris procyonis - Correct Answers -NEMATODE - eggs in the feces of the
primary host, Raccoon to human, blindness, paralysis, and death
Typanosoma brucei - Correct Answers -*African sleeping sickness*
Source: wild and domestic animals
Spread via bites of *tsetse fly*
- causes chronic infection; spread to brain, w/ coma and death.
Symptoms: chronic in blood and CNS, often fatal
Chagas Disease ( Trypanosoma cruzi) - Correct Answers -PROTOZOA- bug,
intracellular, can infect cardiac tissue and years later have damage
Cysticercosis (Taenia solium) - Correct Answers -WORM - swallowing eggs from feces,
cysts develop on affected tissue, poor sanitation usually a factor
Taeniasis (Taenia solium) - Correct Answers -WORM - undercooked meat, poor
sanitation areas, digestive problems, pain in abdomen
Malaria - Correct Answers -PROTOZOAN - female mosquitoes first, then humans,
fever, nausea, chills, then usually death
Ascaris lumbricoides - Correct Answers -NEMATODE- humans, created a large
blockage and change in personality (Captain Cook)
Schistosoma hematobium (Schistosomiasis) - Correct Answers -Blood fluke
[trematode], penetrate skin, reside in bladder veins, blood in the urine, fibrosis; snails
are the intermediate hosts, lead to bladder cancer, female lives in curve of male
(Jericho & Akosomba & Ghana)
Toxocariasis (canis & cati) - Correct Answers -NEMATODE - Feces from infected host,
undercooked meat, dogs & cats then to humans, fever, coughing, sometimes
pneumonia with large numbers
Toxoplasmosis - Correct Answers -PROTOZOA - mother to child through
pregnancy/nursing, ingestion of the host from cat feces, from cats to humans, flu-like
symptoms and eye problems
Trichomoniasis - Correct Answers -PROTOZOAN - sexually transmitted disease;
causes inflammation of the genitourinary tract in both men and women
Bayliscacaris procyonis - Correct Answers -NEMATODE - eggs in the feces of the
primary host, Raccoon to human, blindness, paralysis, and death
Typanosoma brucei - Correct Answers -*African sleeping sickness*
Source: wild and domestic animals
Spread via bites of *tsetse fly*
- causes chronic infection; spread to brain, w/ coma and death.
Symptoms: chronic in blood and CNS, often fatal
