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Parasitology
Question | Answer |
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whipworm | Trichuris trichiura |
Pudoc worm / Mystery disease | Capillara philippinensis |
Capillary liver worm | Capillara hepatica |
Trichina worm | Trichinella spiralis |
giant intestinal roundworm | Ascaris lumbricoides |
Pinworm, Seatworm | Enterobius vermicularis |
Dog ascarid | Toxocara canis |
Cat ascarid | Toxocara cati |
has trilobate lips | Ascaris lumbricoides |
D-shape, persimmon seed like | Enterobius vermicularis |
Visceral Larva Migrans / Ocular Larva Migrans | Toxocara canis/cati |
New world hookworm | Necator americanus |
Old world hookworm | Ancylostoma duodenale |
Dog hookworm | Ancylostoma caninum |
Cat hookworm | Ancylostoma braziliense |
heavy infection causes anemia: micro-hypo | Necator americanus |
threadworm | Strongyloides stercoralis |
disease: lower elephantiasis | Wuchureria bancrofti |
disease: upper elephantiasis | Brugia malayi |
vector: chrysops | Loa loa |
disease: Blinding filariasis, River blindness | Onchocerca volvolus |
disease: calabar-like swelling | Mansonella perstans |
vector: biting midges | Mansonella spp |
filaria: nocturnal periodicity | Wuchureria bancrofti |
filaria: subperiodic periodicity | Brugia malayi |
filaria: diurnal periodicity | Lola loa |
filaria: skin snips specimen | Onchocerca volvolus and Mansonella streptocerca |
longest nematode parasite | Dracunculus medinensis |
IH: Cyclops, copepods, water fleas | Dracunculus medinensis |
smallest nematode | Strongyloides stercoralis |
Rat lung worm | Angiostrongylus cantonensis |
Barber's pole appearance | Angiostrongylus cantonensis |
Herring's worm | Anisakis |
Dog heartworm | Dirofilaria immitis |
causes Human Eosinophilic Meningoencephalitis | Angiostrongylus cantonensis |
fish tapeworm / broad tapeworm | Diphyllobothrium latum |
pork tapeworm | Taenia solium |
Beef tapeworm | Taenia saginata |
Dwarf tapeworm | Hymenolepis nana |
Rat tapeworm | Hymenolepis diminuta |
causes Vitamin B12 def` | Diphyllobotrium latum |
Pathogenesis: sparganosis | Spirometra mansoni |
ingestion of cysticercus BOVIS | Taenia saginata |
ingestion of cysticercus CELLULOSAE | Taenia solium |
gravid proglottids resembles RICE GRAINS or CUCUMBER SEEDS | Diphylidium caninum |
hydatid cyst | Echinococcus granulosus |
Casoni's intradermal test | Echinococcus granulosus |
fluid-filled cyst which contains multiple scolices arising from germinal layer | Coenurus ( Multiceps spp) |
sheep liver fluke | Fasciola hepatica |
temperate fluke | Fasciola hepatica |
oriental liver fluke | Clonorchis sinensis |
Chinese liver fluke | Clonorchis sinensis |
Cat liver fluke | Opisthorchis felineus & viverrini |
southeast asian liver fluke | Opisthorchis felineus & viverrini |
lancet liver fluke | Dicrocoelium dendriticum |
tropical liver fluke | Fasciola gigantica |
giant intestinal fluke | Fasciolopsis buski |
Garrison's fluke | Echinostoma ilocanum |
von seiboid fluke, dwarf intestinal fluke | Heterophyes heterophyes |
yokogawai fluke | Metagonimus yokogawai |
oriental lung fluke | Paragonimus westermani |
oriental blood fluke | Schistosoma japonicum |
Manson's blood fluke | Schistosoma mansoni |
Vesical blood fluke | Schistosoma haematobium |
only pathogenic intestinal amoeba | Entamoeba histolytica |
small race Entamoeba histolytica | Entamoeba hartmanni |
largest amoeba | Entamoeba coli |
smallest intestinal protozoan | Endolimax nana |
amoeba: CLEAN-LOOKING cytoplasm | Entamoeba histolytica |
amoeba: DIRTY-LOOKING cytoplasm | Entamoeba coli |
amoeba: basket-shaped nucleus | Iodamoeba butschlii |
swine amoeba, cyst is uninucleated in pigs and monkeys | Entamoeba polecki |
causes anchovy-sauce like sputum | Entamoeba histolytica |
CNS involvement of Entamoeba histolytica | Secondary Amebic Meningoencephalitis |
flask shaped | Entamoeba histolytica |
CNS involvement of Naegleria fowleri | Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis |
causes: Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis in immunocompromised people | Acanthamoeba |
causes: Corneal ulcer / keratitis in immunocompetent people | Acanthamoeba |
may acquire in contaminated contact lens solution | Acanthamoeba |
old man with eyeglasses | Giardia lamblia |
shepherd's crook | Chilomastix mesnili |
Hakanson phenomenon | Dientamoeba fragilis |
Halo effect | Giardia lamblia |
disease: Gay bowel syndrome, traveler's diarrhea | Giardia lamblia |
lemon-shaped with anterior hyaline knob (nipple like) | Chilomastix mesnili |
disease: concomitant with pinworm infection or ascaris | Dientamoeba fragilis |
causes Strawberry cervix | Trichomonas vaginalis |
pingpong infection | Trichomonas vaginalis |
Atrial flagellate: rapid, jerky motility | Trichomonas vaginalis |
trichomonad: habitat intestine | Trichomonas hominis |
trichomonad: habitat genitalia | Trichomonas vaginalis |
trichomonad: habitat oral cavity | Trichomonas tenax |
old world cutaneous leishmaniasis | Leishmania tropica |
new world cutaneous leishmaniasis | Leishmania mexicana |
a leishmania that is SECONDARY TO BACTERIAL INFX | Leishmania braziliensis |
vector: sandflies - phlebotomus | Leishmania spp |
disease: Cutaneous leishmaniasis | Leishmania tropica, major, mexicana |
disease: mucocutaneous leishmaniasis | Leishmania braziliensis |
disease: Visceral leishmaniasis | Leishmania donovani, chagasi, infantum |
diagnostic stage of Leishmania spp | Amastigote |
Infective stage of Leishmania spp | Promastigote |
East African Trypanosomiasis | Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense |
West African Trypanosomiasis | Trypanosoma brucei gambiense |
Acute african Trypanosomiasis | Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense |
Chronic african Trypanosomiasis | Trypanosoma brucei gambiense |
causes sleeping sickness "nagana's disease" | Trypanosoma brucei |
winterbottom's sign | Trypanosoma brucei |
kissing bugs | Trypanosoma cruzi |
Triatoma infestans | Trypanosoma cruzi |
triatoma found in Philippines | Triatoma rubrofasciata |
American Sleeping sickness | Trypanosoma cruzi |
chagas disease | Trypanosoma cruzi |
Pathogenesis: romana's sign | Trypanosoma cruzi |
the ONLY PATHOGENIC CILIATE | Balantidium coli |
LARGEST PROTOZOAN parasite of human | Balantidium coli |
thrown ball motillity | Balantidium coli |
malignant tertian malaria | Plasmodium falciparum |
Blackwater fever | Plasmodium falciparum |
benign terian | Plasmodium vivax |
Maurer's stippling | Plasmodium falciparum |
crescent or sausage-shaped gametocytes | Plasmodium falciparum |
plasmodium that infects all ages of RBC | Plasmodium falciparum |
shuffner inclusion | Plasmodium vivax |
trophozoite in AMEBOID FORM | Plasmodium vivax |
plasmodium that infects young RBC | Plasmodium vivax |
quartan malaria | Plasmodium malariae |
plasmodium that infects old or senescent RBC | Plasmodium malariae |
Ziemann inclusion | Plasmodium malariae |
rosette or daisy head schizonts | Plasmodium malariae |
tertian malaria | Plasmodium ovale |
plasmodium infects young RBC (ragged edges) | Plasmodium ovale |
James / Shuffner inclusion | Plasmodium ovale |
schizonts: irregular cluster | Plasmodium ovale |
Quotidian malaria | Plasmodium knowlesi |
true relapse plasmodium | Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale |
duffy null: Fy (a-b-) resistance to | Plasmodium vivax |
resistance to Plasmodium falciparum | Sickle cell trait, sickle cell anemia, G6PD Deficiency |
gold standard for diagnosing malaria | Thick and Thin smear |
causative agent of red water fever in cattles | Babesia bigemina |
resembles Plasmodium falciparum ring forms, but NO MALARIAL PIGMENTS | Babesia microti |
definitive host of Babesia microti | Ixodid ticks |
intestinal coccidia that can cause AUTOINFECTION | Cryptosporidium parvum |
has the ability to autofluorescent | Cyclospora cayatanensis |
coccidia that can cause congenital infection | Toxoplasma gondii |