INTESTINAL PARASITE

• Extraintestinal amoebiasis enters circulatory system and can be transferred to liver
• Amoebic pneumonitis abscess right lobe of the liver to the diaphragm
• Metronidazole is the drug of choice for symptomatic intestinal amoebiasis
• Diloxanide, Metronidazole, and Paromomycin drug for asymptomatic carriers
• Giardia lamblia is an intestinal protozoan that initially know as an cercomonas intestinalis
• Giardia duodenal is the other name for Giardia lamblia
• Cysts and Trophozoites is the 2 form of Giardia lamblia
• Giardiasis is a non-bloody, completely asymptomatic and causes folic acid and fat soluble vitamins
• Steatorrhea presence of fat in stool
• The medication for giardiasis are tinidazole, nitazoxanide
• Trichomonas vaginalis is not an intestinal pathogen. It causes urogenital infections and the main mode of transmission is through sexual intercourse. It has been isolated from the urethra and vagina of infected women as well as the urethra and prostate gland of infected men.
• Balantidium coli trophozoites characterized by their large size morphologically more complex than E. histolytica. It has a primitive mouth called a cytostome, a nucleus, food vacuoles, and a pair of contractile vacuoles.
• Balantidium coli is found in pigs but can infect humans who have close contact with them or consume undercooked meat products. The disease caused by B. Coli is known as balantidiosis.
• Balantidiosis symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and dehydration.
• The most common and most important reservoir of balantidium coli is the pig
• The current recommended treatment of patients with balantidiasis involves two drugs oxytetracycline and iodoquinol
• Acute Intestinal Amoebiasis includes bloody mucus containing diarrhea
• Extraintestinal Amoebiasis when parasite enters the circulatory system