Human Parasites: From Organisms to Molecular Biology Exam Review

These flashcards cover various key concepts and facts related to human parasites, their life cycles, diseases they cause, and relevant treatments.

Beaver fever

Caused by Giardia intestinalis.

Brain eating amoeba

Refers to Naegleria fowleri.

Katayama fever

Caused by Schistosoma japonicum.

Cyst stage

Not present in Trichomonas vaginalis and Entamoeba gingivalis.

Ciliate causing human disease

Balantidium coli.

Blood in urine from playing by river

Most likely caused by Schistosoma hematobium.

Non-viral STD protozoan

Trichomonas vaginalis.

Non-pathogenic protozoan

Entamoeba dispar.

Structure in Toxoplasma absent in Plasmodium

Conoid.

Organism with unique hydrogenosome

Trichomonas.

Parasite with erythrocytic and hepatic life cycles

Plasmodium.

Only stramenophile that causes human disease

Blastocystis.

Largest parasitic protozoan in humans

Balantidium.

Babesia identification structure

Tetrad 'Maltese cross'.

Platyhelminthes sperm characteristics

Possesses 2 flagella and a 9+2 arrangement.

Organism with contractile vacuole

Balantidium.

Genome lacking in Cryptosporidium

Mitochondrial.

Contaminated salad causing diarrhea

Cyclospora.

Parasite carried by ticks

Babesia.

Trematode life cycle stage with caste system

Redia.

Organism carried by female Anopheles mosquito

Plasmodium.

Behavioral change in infected rat

Caused by Toxoplasma.

Dependent on Linoleic acid for reproduction

Toxoplasma.

Nuclear dimorphism in Balantidium

Micronucleus contains germline genes.

Slow growing form in Toxoplasma

Bradyzoite.

Anti-malaria drug from a Chinese herb

Artemisinin.

Parasitic protozoan with largest genome

Trichomonas vaginalis.

Male schistosome sex chromosomes

ZZ.

Kelch 13 gene mutation targets drug

Artemisinin.

Dormant stage of malaria parasite

Hypnozoite.

Most virulent Plasmodium species

P. falciparum.

Somatic stem cells of Schistosoma mansoni

Neoblasts.

Intracellular parasite in intestinal cells

Cryptosporidium.

Most successful protozoan in wide distribution

Toxoplasma.

Correct trematode development progression

Egg to miracidium to sporocyst to redia to cercaria to metacercaria to juvenile to adult.

Drug targeting calcium channels in schistosomes

Praziquantel.

Fecal oral route of transmission

All of the above (Balantidium, Blastocystis, Giardia, Entamoeba histolytica).

Preferred drug for anaerobic protozoa

Metronidazole.

Parasitic protozoan with smallest genome

Plasmodium malariae.

Cryptosporidium parvum asexual cycle generations

3 generations.

Organelle mitosome found in

Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia.

Antigenic variation strategy in parasites

Used by Giardia lamblia.

Medication for dysentery patient

Metronidazole.

Termination codon via polyadenylation

UAA.

First person to describe schistosome

Theodor Bilharz.

First to find mosquito vector for Plasmodium

Ronald Ross.

Intra-erythrocytic stage with largest nuclear diameter

Schizont stage.