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What disease is caused by T. cruzi? - ✔✔Chagus disease
What diagnostic method for T. cruzi? - ✔✔Blood smear
Which insect is the vector for T. cruzi? - ✔✔Kissing bug
What type of protozoan is T. cruzi? - ✔✔Kinetoplast
What is the name of the swelling near the eye in Chagus disease? - ✔✔Romana sign
Which organs are primarily affected by T. cruzi infection? - ✔✔Brain and heart
What anatomical abnormalities can occur in the digestive system due to T. cruzi
infection? - ✔✔Large esophagus and colon
What type of development occurs in the posterior station of the kissing bug? -
✔✔Stercorarian
Leishmania - ✔✔- cutaneous (L. tropica, L. major, L. mexicana)
- mucocutaneous (L. brazliensis)
- visceral (L. donovi
, What type of organism is Toxoplasma gondii? - ✔✔Apicomplexan
What is the definitive host for Toxoplasma gondii? - ✔✔Cats
Where is Toxoplasma gondii commonly found in the body? - ✔✔Tissue (GI, muscle)
What are the two forms of Toxoplasma gondii found in tissue? - ✔✔Tachyzoites and
bradyzoites
What form of Toxoplasma gondii has a tough cell wall, exists in large numbers, and can
persist for months to years? - ✔✔Bradyzoites
How does infection with Toxoplasma gondii typically start? - ✔✔Ingestion of
bradyzoites
many rounds of asexual reproduction --> oocyst
What happens when sporozoites of Toxoplasma gondii enter intestinal cells or
disseminate to other tissues? - ✔✔Infection begins
Giardia spp. - ✔✔-flagellum for locomotion (4)(trophosoite)
- binary fission, reproduce
- cysts (infectious stage)
- bilaterally symmetrical
- GI tract
- wet mount, floation
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