(intro to parasitology) 2nd sem, midterms

• dirty food & water

  Entamoeba
• (through contaminated pool/lakes)

  Acanthamoeba
• Move by pseudopods 


  Amoebozoa
• the only human parasite

  Balantidium coli
• Move by flagella

  Euglenozoa
• Flagellated and amoeboid forms; causes meningoencephalitis.

  Naegleria
• Undulating membrane, transmitted by vectors. (African sleeping disease)


  Trypanosoma
• Flagellated form in sand fly vector, ovoid form in vertebrate host.

  Leishmania
• The treatment for tapeworm

  Niclosamide
• The treatment for flatworms

  Praziquantel
• The treatment for intestinal roundworm

  Mebendazole
• • Roundworm - nematodes
  • Flatworm - tapeworm & fluke worm
  • Tapeworm - cestodes
  • Fluke Worm - trematodes
• Disease for Entamoeba histolytica

  Intestinal amebiasis
• Disease for Balantidium coli

  Balantidiasis
• Disease for Giardia duodenalis (lamblia)

  Giardiasis
• Disease for Cyclospora cayetanensis

  Cyclosporiasis
• Treatment for Isosporiasis

  Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole