BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS, SAPPINIA SPP., BLASTOCYTIS HOMINIS

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Balamuthia mandrillaris

  • Agent of GAE

  • Free-living amoeba/leptomyxid amoeba

  • relatively uncommon

  • Does not possess spiky pseudopodia unlike Acanthemoeba

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Sappinia spp.

Rarely isolate from human specimens

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Blastocystis hominis

  • classified as a stramenopile

  • has four (4) forms

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Vacuolated

Ameboid

Granular

Multiple fission

Four (4) forms of Blastocystis hominis

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Vacuolated

  • spherical and variable in size (5-20um)

  • central clear area and 2-4 peripheral nuclei

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Cyst

Infective stage of Blastocystis hominis