Summary Medically Relevant Protozoa

Ameobal


Intestinal Amoeba
Intest
Ctrophozoites +
Lysts)
Amoebofagellate Ciliat
(trophitrite , no
pt)
entamoeba I
histolytica Naegleria Balantidu
diarrhea (dysenty) Fowerli (aggressive) Acanthameo a (Less
·
bloody + liver
culbertson
-



aggressivel Coli (troph
·

cysts in faces . abscess · amoeb + y
·

engulf
RBCs mening encepatitis ·

granulomatous encephalitis ·
pigs/Vete
trophozoite in CSF)
Unsettes in Immunocompromised
·


·

swimmingsaiving ·
farmers
·
no
list
tophozoites in CSF
.



·




in tel
lypt
·

nocyste


phagousticed
RBCs




Spunzoa
(sporogony/schizogony)

IntestinalSporozoa Tissue
Sporoz

I
Cryptosporidium Plasmodium Babest
diarrhea
·


watery trophozoite in RBC
blood
immunocompromised blood + tissue ·
·
HIV + ·
-




IXOdes T

·Man hee
immunocompetent)
·

but self-limiting in
same vector
acid fast oocysts. interes disea
n Lyme
hypoglycem




Flagelletes Emastigates)
I
Haemoflagellates
Intestinal
Flagellate urogenital Jamastigotes - Tissue
; trypomastigate - na
Flagellate
Giardia Trichomonas
Trypanosoma Leishmania

·
diarrhea Vaginalis I-trypomastigote ·
sandfly