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| most resistant form of protozoa |
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| growth and feeding stage of protista |
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| protozoan contracted by fecal-oral from pigs |
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| biggest problem caused by balantidium coli |
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| treatment for balantidium coli: |
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| tetracycline: alters GI mucosa |
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| biggest problem caused by entamoeba histolitica |
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| how does entamoeba histolitica affect blood |
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| which organism are people with contact lenses more exposed to? |
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| can cause keratitis, rarely encephalitis |
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| can cause amoebic encephalitis (invasive organism) |
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| causes amoebic encephalitis which is almost 100% fatal; diagnosed at autopsy |
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| divers are more susceptible to this |
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| causes CHRONIC African Sleeping Sickness |
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| Trypanosoma brucei gambiense |
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| causes accute African Sleeping Sickness |
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| Trypanosoma brucei rhondesiense |
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| How is trypanosoma brucei transmitted? |
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| treatment for this disease should start before CNS involvement |
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| Organism that causes Chaga's disease |
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| Vector for trypanosoma cruzi |
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| lesions produced by trypanosoma cruzi |
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| Parasite-Induced heart disease is caused by which parasite? |
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| megaviscera is associated with which organism |
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| Main reservoir of this protozoan are canines and rodents |
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| what is the vector for leishmania? |
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| Which disease produces painless ulcers that can be disfiguring? What organism causes it? |
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| which organism causes Kala Azar (visceral l.) |
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| in duodenum exists as trophozoite/ bearded man |
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| 7% of population are asymptomatic carriers |
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| Can easily be spread from child to child in daycare |
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| test for giardia intestinalis |
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| most common cause of epidemic water-borne disease in the US |
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| survives chlorine, and can be caught in pools, after an "accident" |
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| can be a danger to campers who swim in areas where there are beavers |
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| In a wet prep motility was discovered. Most likely this is.. |
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| This protozoan has no cyst stage |
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| drug of choice for trichomonas |
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| What is the process by which apocomplexans reproduce? |
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| schizogony (asexual cell division into several organisms) |
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| old treatment was quinine |
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| eradication of this disease failed due to increased resistance of mosquitoes to DDT |
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| used to be treated with chloronique |
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| what stage of this organism is injected by mosquitoes during bite? |
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| sporozytes in liver, mezozoites and gametes in blood. this describes... |
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| what is the definite host for plasmodium? |
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| the most severe form of malaria is caused by |
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| the most severe form of malaria is caused by |
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| how is malaria diagnosed? |
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| by looking for mezozoites in blood smear |
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| how can malaria be controlled world-wide |
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| thalassemia, sickle cell disease and negative duffy would be immune to which disease? |
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| blackwater fever is a complication of which organism (specific kind) |
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| dark urine , filled with hemoglobine indicates... |
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| about40% of US population tests positive for its antibodies |
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| makes rats less afraid of cats; more people who have it are schizophrenic |
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| resists chlorination and freezing temps |
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| resists chlorination and freezing temps |
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