ASCP Parasitology Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers 2024

ASCP Parasitology Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers 2024 What is the diagnostic procedure for Echinococcus granulosus? - answerThe microscopic examination of hydatid fluid aspirated from a cyst. What is the diagnostic procedure for Onchocerca volvulus? - answerExamination of skin snips. What is the diagnostic procedure for Schistosoma haematobium? - answerExamination of urine sediment. Charcot-Leyden crystals in stool may be associated with an immune response and are thought to be formed from the breakdown products of what cell? - answerEosinophils. How is Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense transmitted? - answerBy the bite of the tsetse fly. Infection with Giardia lamblia is often associated with: - answerIngestion of water contaminated with cysts. Upon examination of stool material for Cystoisospora belli, one would expect to see: - answerOocysts that are modified acid fast variable. What is the best technique to identify Dientamoeba fragilis in stool? - answerTrichromatic stained smear. Because there is no known cyst form for Dientamoeba fragilis. Entamoeba gingivalis - answerKnown to be an inhabitant of the mouth and is characterized by morphology that resembles Entamoeba histolytica/E.dispar. However, Entamoeba gingivalis tends to ingest P.M.N's whereas Entamoeba histolytica/E.dispar does not. What organism causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis? - answerNaegleria fowleri. What are the characteristics of the rhabditiform-noninfective-larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis? - answerShort buccal capsule and large genital primordium. Visceral larva migrants is associated with what parasitic organism? - answerToxocara. Toxocara species are the cause of visceral larva migrants and occur when humans accidentally ingest the infective eggs of the dog or cat ascarid. The larvae migrate through the deep tissues, including the eye. What are visceral larva migrans? - answerA condition in humans caused by the migratory larvae of certain nematodes, humans being a dead end host. These nematodes can infect but not mature in humans and after migrating through the intestinal wall, travel with the blood stream to various organs where they cause inflammation and damage. Balantidium coli. - answerNot common in the United States. It can cause watery diarrhea in humans and is associated with pigs. It is the largest of the intestinal Protozoa. What method is used to diagnosis Toxoplasmosis? - answerSerology. Examination of 24 hour unpreserved urine specimen is sometimes helpful in the recovery of what parasitic organism? - answerSchistosoma