microbiology - protozoa
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- tick transmission, malaria like manifestation, "maltese cross" seen in RBCs
- Babesia microti
- water contaminated with infected animal feces, self-limiting diarrhea, but life threatening in AIDS patients
- Cryptosporidium parvum
- anchovy paste aspirate from abcess of the liver
- Entamoeba histolytica
- amebic dysentery, trophozoites with ingested RBCs, flask shaped ulcers in the colon
- Entamoeba histolytica
- protozoa of the small intestine, flatulance and diarrhea with steatorrhea
- Giardia lamblia
- heart shaped trophozoite with two nuclei, four pairs of flagella, and a large sucking disk
- Giardia lamblia
- flagellated amoeba, meningoencephalitis and death within a week of swimming in contaminated freshwater ponds
- Naegleria fowleri
- Blackwater fever, malaria, thrombosis and ischemia with hemolysis
- Plasmodium falciparum
- crescent shaped parasite,transmitted by mosquito,infects RBCs and hepatocytes, cyclic fever,headache,anemia
- Plasmodium spp.
- ring enhancing mass in AIDS pateint, acquired from consuming undercooked meat
- Toxoplasma gondii
- can be infected by cat feces in litter boxes, fetal transmission leading to stillbirth and brain calcifications
- Toxoplasma gondii
- vaginitis with profuse frothy discharge and strawberry mucosa
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- pear-shaped, flagellated trophozoites, alkaline vaginal pH, sexually transmitted
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- African sleeping sickness
- Trypanosoma brucei
- reduviid bug, chagas disease, invasion of myocardium
- Trypanosoma cruzi