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EKU Parasit exam 1

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Where are parasitic diseases most common   warm climates  
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what can effect the distribution of parasitic diseases   social, economics, public health, sanitation  
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parasites with a simple life cycles are often more   cosmopolitan  
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What is the cause of most cases of parasitic diseases in the US   travelers and immigrants  
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The degree of injury due to parasitic infection normally depends upon   number, size, activity, and location  
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What are the clinical manifestations of a parasitic infection   general and variable  
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What is required for diagnosis   laboratory detection and identification  
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Parasites that have no vectors or intermediate hosts are normally referred to as   simple  
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parasites that have an intermediate host or vectors are normally referred to   complex  
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when was the last time malaria was endemic in the US   1940  
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What is a protozoa   a unicellular eukaryotic microorganism  
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a unicellular eukaryotic microorganism   protozoa  
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amebas, flagellates, ciliates, hemoflagelates, sporozoa and coccidia are all a part of what class of parasites   protozoa  
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what are helminths   metazoa; wormlike invertebrates  
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metazoa; worm like invertebrates are known as   helminths  
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nematodes, filariae, cestoda, and trematoda are all in what group of parasites   helminths  
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arthropods are devinded as   hard exoskeleton jointed apendages  
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these have hard exoskeletons and jointed appendages   artropods  
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How are protozoa grouped   mode of transport/locamotion  
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what is a protracted relationship   causing harm, having it for some period of time  
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parasite implies what type of relationship   protracted  
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Insects and arachnids are in what group of parasites   arthropods  
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the arthropod group of parasites consists of   arachnids and insects  
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Amebas have what form of locomotion   pseudopodium  
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Flagellates have what form of locomotion   flagella  
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Ciliates have what form of locomotion   cilia  
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hemoflagelates have what form of locomotion   flagella  
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Nematodes are what   intestinal round worms  
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filariae are what   tissue roundworms  
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cestoda are what   tapeworms  
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trematoda are what   flukes  
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What is meant by infective form   infective to humans  
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what is meant by diagnostic form   that which is seen in the laboratory  
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what are the two forms you will see protozoas in   trophozoite and cysts  
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what is a trophozoite   troph, the active vegetative form  
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what is a cyst   the inactive, resistant, infectious form  
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What are the life stages of the helminths   adult, ovum, larvae  
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what is the adult stage   mature stage  
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what is an ovum   egg  
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what is a larvae   immature stage  
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Cysts can often pass through what and still be viable   the stomach  
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urine, mineral oil, and radiography contrast media found in stool is normall   contamination  
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How many stool specimens are needed for the detection of helminth ova   one to two  
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how many specimens are needed to detect protozoa   three collected every other day  
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what are the proper preservatives for stool   formalin and PVA  
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What does PVA stand for   polyvinyl alcohol  
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What type of slide can be used from formalin   wet mounts  
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what type of slide can be used from PVA   permanent  
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sodium acetate-acetic acid formalin can be used for what   permanent smears and concentration methods  
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What are two ways to process stool specimen   formalin and PVA  
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What is the process for a formalin preparation   concentration, iodine wet bount look for ova or larvae  
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what is the process for a PVA preparation   no concentration, trichrome stain looking for trophs and cysts  
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if doing a peripheral blood thin smear what stain should be used   wrights or giemsa  
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what do you us a thick peripheral blood smear for   malaria  
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what is a para-pak   a stool specimen collection device  
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Protozoa stain gray blue to black with nuclei and cellular inclusions darger than cytoplasm is seen in what stain   iron hematoxylin  
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this stain offeres better contrast than iron hematoxylin, protozoan trophs and cyst have a blue-green to purple cytoplasm, nuclei and inclusions are red to purple red, background is green   trichrome  
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what is flotation best used for   protozoan cysts, hymenoepis nana ova and hookworm ova  
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what solvent is used in the floatation method   zinc sulfate  
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What is used in the sedimentation method   formalin ethyl acetate  
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What iodine solution is preferable   dobell and connor or d'antoni's  
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what is an except able iodine solution   lugol's  
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what are iodine stains sealed with   vaspar  
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what are the best objectives too look at a iodine smear   10x and 40x  
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What is the best objectives to look at trichrom stained slids   scan at 40 and use OI for identification  
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How do protozoa reproduce   binary division  
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who are lumen dwelling protozoa normally identified   trichrome stained  
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what are cyst walls made of   chiten  
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why can't trophs be the infective form   they do not survive passage through digestive system  
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what is the reproductive form of protozoa   trophs  
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What is the etiological agent for amebiasis   Entamoeba histolytical/entamoeba dispar  
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Entamoeba histolytica/entamoeba dispar is the etiological agent for   amebiasis or amebic dysentary  
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How is entamoeba histalitytica/entamoeba dispar transmitted   cysts in contaminated food and water  
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These are the only pthogenic amoebas   entamoeba histolytical/entamoeba dispar  
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entamoeba histolytica can be diferentiated via what method   serological  
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what is another name for a nucleolus   cariozome  
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What is the difference between E. colis and histolytica   e. coli have very dirty cytoplasm and histolytica have a must cleaner cytoplasm  
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how many nuclei can a E. histolytica have   up to 4 no more  
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What are the organs E. Histolytica infect   liver, lung. brain  
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What shape will the chromatoidal bodies in histolytica have   round  
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What shape will the chromatoidal bodies have in E. coli   excentric with dirty cytoplasm  
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What is the differential characteristic of e. Harmanni to E. histolytica   size, Harmanni is <10 um  
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This entamoeba is characterized by no parachromatin, large cariozome, up to 4 nucleoli   E. Nana  
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This entamoeba is characterized by a variable nuclei and often times over to the side   E. Butshlii  
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Fragillis was once thought to be a entamoeba but is now a   flagilate  
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fragillis is known for what?   two nuclei, no cyst form and ragged chromatoidal bodies  
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