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DIT Protozoa
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cause of malaria | Plasmodium |
| most common protozoal infection in US | Giardia or Trichomonas |
| Chagas disease | Trypansoma cruzi |
| amoebic dysentery | Entamoeba |
| african sleeping sickness | trypansoma brucei |
| diarrhea in campers and hikers | giardia |
| transmitted in raw meat or infected cat feces | toxoplasma |
| transmitted by sandflies | leishmania |
| causes vaginitis | trichomonas |
| Mexico then bloody diarrhea. Found in stool? | cysts of Entamoeba histolytica |
| 32 male went camping in Cali, had 2 days of diarrhea and now has liver damage and jaundice | entamoeba histolytica |
| looks like a diamond ring | trophozoite |
| ruptures the host cell | merozoite |
| replicating intracellularly | schizont |
| form injected from the anopheles mosquito | sporozoite |
| banana shaped | gametocyte (falciparum) |
| west africa with recurrent fever. what's goin on? | bursting RBCS (ruptured by merozoite) |