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Parisitology - Diagnosis
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Graduate
04/06/2013

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Entamoeba hisolytica
Definition
Serology; Trophozoites/Cysts in stool; Flask shaped ulcer, Rounded w/ central karyosome
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Giardia lambia
Definition
Trophozoites/Cysts in stool; Clown face w/ mustache
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Trichomonas vaginalis
Definition
Trophozoites on wet mount vaginal/protatic/urethral discharge; undulating membrane; Flagella: jerky, rapid mobility; (Like clown face w/o mustache); dies soon so must be viewed immediately
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Cryptosporidium parvum
Definition
Cysts in acid-fast stain; Coccidia; (Cryptosporidia is smaller than Cyclosporidia); Cysts=oocysts
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Plasmodium falciparum
Definition
Blood smear; multiple rings (trophozoites), crescent shaped gameotocyte, applique form (tiny dot attached to outside of RBC membrane)
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Plasmodium vivax
Definition
Blood smear; infects immature RBCs, larger in size
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Babesia microti
Definition
Blood smear; No RBC Pigment: Maltese Cross
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Acanthamoeba; Naegleria
Definition
Submit CSF, corneal scrapping, oro-nasal discharge; Grown on petri dishes with Gram negative bacilli (amoeba eat them: trails
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Leishmania donovani
Definition
obligate intracellular; Macrophages containing amastigotes with kinetoplasts (tiny dot)
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Trypanosoma cruzi
Definition
Blood smear: C Shaped Trypomastigotes; Undulating membrane; Flagella
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Trypanosoma brucei
Definition
Blood smear: S Shaped Trypomastigotes
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Toxoplasma gondii
Definition
Serology or Biopsy of muscle or brain:
intracellular; Bradyzoites: no flagella, no wavy membrane, slow, inside cysts; Tachyzoite: flagella, fast, half moon shaped
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Trichinella spiralis
Definition
Biopsy of striated muscle tissue; Serology
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Wuchereria bancrofti; Brugya malayi; Loa Loa; Onchocera volvulus
Definition
Microfilariae in blood smear
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Ascaris lumbricoides
Definition
Worm can protrude from oriface; Larvae in sputum
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Ancylostoma duodenale ("Old World Hookworm")
Definition
Two pairs of spiny teeth
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Necator americanus ("New World Hookworm")
Definition
Cutting plate teeth
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Strongyloides stercoralis ("Threadworm")
Definition
Short buccal cavity; Large genital primordium
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Enterobius vermicularis ("Pinworm")
Definition
Cellulose Tape Preparation: Use tape around perianal region to obtain larvae and worm samples; Flattened eggs
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Fasciolopsis buski ("Giant Intestinal Fluke"); Fasciola hepatica ("Sheep Liver Fluke"); Clonorchis sinensis; Opisthorchis- new term ("Chinese Liver Fluke"); Paragonimus westermani ("Oriental Lung Fluke")
Definition
Operculated Eggs in stool
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Schistosoma japonicum ("Oritental Blood Fluke")
Definition
Stool sample
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Schistosoma haematobium
Definition
Urine; eggs in urinary bladder biopsy
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Schistosoma mansoni
Definition
Stool sample
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Hymenolepis nana ("Dwarf Tapeworm")
Definition
eggs have hooklets in middle
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Diphyllobothrium latum ("Fish tapeworm")
Definition
Stool sample; Operculated Eggs
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Taenia solium ("Pork Tapeworm")
Definition
Radiating lines in eggs
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Echinococcus granulosus
Definition
Hydatid sand; slow-growing tumor-like w/germinative membrane; Surgical excision of cyst- don't cut open: release hydatid sand = Anaphylaxis
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Tick
Definition
visual-identification; Exposure history
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Mite
Definition
Scraping wet mount or biopsy
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