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20 Cards in this Set
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Trypanosoma: two types, Brucei causes African sleeping disease and Cruzi causes Changas disease |
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Giardia lamblia causes Giardiasis |
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Entamoeba histolytica causes Amebiasis or ameobic dysentary |
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Plasmodium causes Malaria |
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Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) causes Enterobiasis in the colon and caecum |
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Necator americanus (hookworm) causes hookworm disease in the small intestines |
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Trichinella spiralis (Trichinosis) causes Trichinosis in smooth muscles. |
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Taenia (tapeworm) causes tapeworm disease in the intestine |
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Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) causes fascioliasis in the intestines and liver |
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Clonorchis sinensis (human liver fluke) causes clonorchiasis in the bil ducts |
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Schistosoma (blood fluke) causes Schistosomiasis in the veins of the colon |
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Giardia lamblia |
Giardiasis -> ingestion of dormant cyst through contaminated water of food
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Typanosoma |
Brucei: African sleeping sickness -> bites tsetse fly (saliva)
Cruzi: Changas disease -> Bite Triatoma (kissing bug) |
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Entamoeba histolytica |
Ambiasis or ameobic dysentary -> Ingestion of mature cyst through contaminated water or food |
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Plasmodium vivax |
Malaria -> bite of female anopheles mosquito |
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What do the zone inhibition represent? |
The size of the zone of inhibition depends upon the sensitivity of the bacteria to the specifc antimicrobial agent and the poiint at which the chemical's minimun inhibitory concentration is reached. |
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Penicillium |
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Rhizopus |
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Aspergillus |
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Plaques |
Clearings that can be viewed with the naked eyes and are produce when lysis of bacterial cells growing in a lwan on an agar plate. |