Medical Parasitology
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- stages
- cyst=dormant, trophozoite phase (where it is feeding and multiplying).
- With flagella
- class is Mastigophora
- Giardia Lambia
- giardiasis (looks like it has two eyes⬦looks like it is looking at you), a lot of flatulence (gas),
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- : greenish-yellow, frothy discharge
- Trypanosomes
- African sleeping sickness
- Sarcodina- Amoebas* Entamoeba histolytica
- -Causes ameobic dysentery (dysentery also caused by shigella)..do stool sample to find out.
- Sarcodina- Amoebas* Naegleria fowleri:
- - Causes primary amebic meningencephalitis (PAM)⬦.. found in ponds and lakes⬦the organism gets through by nasal route and enters the brain.
- Nonmotile Sporozoa* Plasmodium
- responsible for malaria (transmitted by the anopheles mosquito)
- Nonmotile Sporozoa* Toxoplasma gondii
- causes Toxoplamosis -the cat is the host if it⬦.pregnant woman should not be around cats..found in soil and feces of the cat.
- Nonmotile Sporozoa* Cryptosporidim
- = cryptosporidiosis