Parasitology - Answers The study of Eukaryotic parasites, protozoa, and helminths
Types of Protozoan Pathogens - Answers Trophozoite
Cyst
Trophozoite - Answers Most propagate by simple asexual cell division of the active feeding cell.
Cyst - Answers Many undergo formation
Protozoan pathogen - Answers Single- celled, animal-like microbes, most having some form of motility.
Amoeboid Protozoa - Answers -Entamoeba histolytica
-Naegleria fowleri
Entamoeba histolytica - Answers Disease: Amebiasis (amebic dysentery)
Reservior: Human
Transmission: Fecal oral (Liver abscess)
Naegleria fowleri - Answers Disease: Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM)
Reservior: Freshwater lakes, ponds and soil
Transmission: Contact
Ciliated Protozoa - Answers Balantidium
Flagellated Protozoa - Answers Trichomonas vaginalis
Giardia lamblia
Trypanosoma brucei
Trypanosoma cruzi
Leishmania donovani
Trichomonas vaginalis - Answers Disease: Trichomoniasis
Reservior: Human
Transmission: Sexual
Test: Smear
, Trophoziote form ONLY
Symptoms: Green/yellowish discharge
Giardia lamblia - Answers Disease: Giardiasis
Reservior: Human, animal
Transmission: Fecal oral, ingest cyst
Symptoms: Watery, foul smell diarrhea
Trypanosoma brucei - Answers Disease: African sleeping sickness
Transmission: Bite from a fly
Trypansoma cruzi - Answers Disease: Chagas disease
ONLY ONE with bug vector
Symptoms: *inflammation in heart and brain*
Leishmania donovani - Answers Disease: Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar)
Reservior: Dogs, foxes, rodents
Transmission: Vector: sandflies
*Systemic (visceral)*
Leishmania donovani - Answers -high intermiltent fever; weight loss, enlarged spleen, liver, and lymph
nodes.
Apicomplexan Protozoan - Answers -Plasmodium falciparum
-Toxoplasma gondii
-Cryptosporidium parvum
-Babesia microti
Plasmodium falciparum - Answers AGENT OF MALARIA
Has 4 species
1. P. malariae
2. P. vivax
3. P. falcrparum