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Parasitology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |