Animal Parasites
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| individual infected with a disease-producing organism | host
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| simple one-celled animal parasites | protozoa
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| an examples of protozoa is | plasmodium causing malaria
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| complex multi-celled animal parasites | metazoa
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| invertebrate animal w/jointed limbs & segmented body | arthropod
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| insects and spiders are examples of | arthropods
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| worms & flukes are examples of | metazoa
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| crab louse and organism causing scabies are | important arthropods that parasitize humans
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| small intracellular parasites of birds, animals, & humans | Toxoplasma gondi
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| small parasitic worm infecting humans, which lives in lower bowel | pinworm
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| in humans pinworm causes | perianal pruritis
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| parasite of pubic area, which causes intense itching | crab louse
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| particularly dangerous for individuals lacking a spleen | Babesiosis
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| severe amebiasis can cause abscesses in | the liver
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| Trichomonads are a | sexually transmitted parasite
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| Giardia is transmitted | contaminated water
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| to avoid Toxoplasma, pregnant women should not handle | cat feces
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| there is currently no specific treatment for cryptosporidia; it is particularly dangerous for people already infected with | AIDS
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| can be eliminated from water through filtration | Cryptosporidia
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| roundworm that is typically transmitted through undercooked pork is | Trichinella
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| can move from the pulmonary system to the digestive tract | Ascaris worms
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| commonly are located in the intestine | tapeworms
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| Crab louse infestation responds to | anti-parasitics
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| parasitizes intestinal tract and can cause severe diarrhea | Cryptosporidium parvum
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| Cryptosporidium parvum causes | cryptosporidiosis
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| organisms adapted to living within or on body of another host | animal parasites
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| malaria, amoebic dysentery, African sleeping sickness, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, giardiasis are all | protozoal infections
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| protozoa release toxins and enzymes that | destroy cells or interfere with their functions
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| caused by various species of Plasmodium | malaria
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| caused by pathogenic ameba, Entamoeba histolytica | Amebic dysentery
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| caused by Trichomonas vaginalis | genital tract trichomonad
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| caused by Giardia lamblia, infects small intestine; crampy abdominal pain | Giardiasis
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| caused by Toxoplasma gondii, may infect fetus of pregnant woman and cause congenital malformations | Toxoplasmosis
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| does not cause disease in immunocompetent persons but causes a severe, sometimes fatal pulmonary infection in persons with HIV/AIDS | Pneumocystis pneumonia, caused by Pneumocystis carinii
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| large roundworm that lives within intestinal tract and eggs discharge in feces | Ascaris
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| Pinworms migrate out of a colon through | the anus while the infected individual is asleep depositing its eggs on the perianal skin
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| humans can become infected with tapeworms by | eating the flesh of an infected animal that contains the larvae of the parasite
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| thick, fleshy, short worms with suckers that attach to the host | flukes
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| flukes that infect the skin | schistosomes
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| small parasite burrows in the superficial layers of the skin, where it lays eggs that hatch in a few days | scabies
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| lives in anal and genital hairs | crab louse
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