Prefi Clinpar 1

• Are obligate intracellular parasites infects animals including insects and crustaceans .

  Microsporidia
• Well adapted pathogens and important agricultural parasites.

  Microsporidia
• Gastrointestinal infection most common manifestation of microsporidia.
• Emerged as opportunistic pathogens in patients with AIDS. microsporidia
• Two species of Microsporidia that causes chronic diarrhea in patients with AIDS and CD4 cell counts of less than 100/mcL

  E. bieneusi and E. intestinalis
• Pneumocystis jiroveci

  Formerly known as Pneumocystis carinii.
• Fungal pathogen responsible for causing pneumocystis pneumonia(PCP)
• Spherical structures and 8 intracystic bodies

  Cyst of P. jeroveci
• Active forms of P. jeroveci

  Found in alveolar spaces of lungs. Troph
• Morphology of P. jeroveci that lack cellwall . Trophozoite
• Troph of P. Jeroveci 1 to 5um pleomorphic and contain single nucleus
• Primarily infect alveolar epithelial cells

  P. Jeroveci
• What parasite that causes night sweats and hypoxemia, cyanosis

  P. Jeroveci
• Treatment for p. Jeroveci

  Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
• What parasite?

  Cyst T. gondii

  
• What parasite?

  Trophozoite T. gondii

  
• What parasite??

  Cyst Microsporidia

  
• What parasite?

  Troph Microsporidia

  
• What parasite?

  Cyst P. jeroveci

  
• What parasite ??

  Troph P. jeroveci

  
• What parasite?

  Cyst Pneumocystis jeroveci

  
• What parasite ??

  Troph P. jeroveci

  
• What parasite?

  T. gondii