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How is Salmonella sp transmitted?
Foodborne and waterborne
what is salmonella divided into?
2000 serovars, divided into biovars
what is salmonella a common inhabitant of?
animal intestines...poultry and cattle especially`
Salmonella is noted in food poisonings with what?
unsanitary conditions
salmonella may be inside what?
the chicken egg
what is salmonella typhi a particulary virulent form of?
Salmonellosis

Causes Typhoid Fever
Gracilicute
Facultatively Anaerobic Gram negative Rods
Enteric
How is salmonella Typhi transmitted
Foodborne and Waterborne
Gracilicute
Facultatively Anaerobic Gram negative Rods
Enteric
Who is the famous chronic carrier associated with Salmonella Typhi?
Typhoid Mary
Gracilicute
Facultatively Anaerobic Gram negative Rods
Enteric
Shigella dysenteriae
Shigellosis
Gracilicute
Facultatively Anaerobic Gram negative Rods
Enteric
What does Vibrio cholerae cause
Cholerae
Gram Negative Facultively Anaerobic Rods
NOT Enteric
where is vibrio cholerae known for epidemics
3rd world countries
How is Vibrio cholerae transmitted
Foodborne, Waterborne and contact with feces or vomit of infected persons
defication illness
Yersina pestis is responsible for what?
Bubonic Plague
What is Bubonic Plague also known as?
Black Death and Pneumonic Plague
Yersina pestis transmitted
Arthropod-borne and Airborne
Gram negative facultatively anaerobic rods
Yersina pestis has caused many ________in U.S. History?
Pandemics
Yersina pestis is endemic where?
in SW U.S
ZOONOSE
How is Haemophilis influenza
transmitted
Airborne
Haemophilis influenza has how many serotypes?
a b c d e f (6)
Haemophilis is responsible for what?
Bacterial meningitis
Gracilicute
Facultatively Anaerobic
Gram negative Rod
Not enteric
What was thought to cause the flu until 1933
Pfeffer's Bacillus, (1892-1933)
Haemophilis influenza (flu) is commonly seen in who?
Children under 5
Gracilicute
Facultatively Anaerobic
Gram negative Rod
Not enteric
What is the vaccine for Haemophilis and when was it
introduced
Hib vaccine
2000
Gracilicute
Facultatively Anaerobic
Gram negative Rod
Not enteric
How many cases of Bacterial Meningitis are seen each year world wide and how many of those result in death?
3-4 Million seen
450,000 deaths
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
have what 02 requirements
they are the smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
Gram negative
Rickettsia rickettsia
is responsible for what?
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
Zoonose
What is the vector for Rickettsia rickettsia?
dog ticks, wood ticks
Zoonose
How does Rickettsia rickettsia appear on a person?
red spots on skin
How is Rickettsia rickettsia transmitted
Arthropod borne
Where (geographically is Rickettsia rickettsia seen
Georgia and the Carolinas
What are common reservoirs for Rickettsia rickettsia
Cattle and Antelope
Rickettsia prowazekii
is responsible for what illness
Typhus or Typhus fever
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
How is Rickettsia prowazekii
transmitted?
Arthropod-borne
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
What is the vector for Rickettsia prowazekii
Human Lice
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
Rickettsia prowazekii is well noted in what?
WWI trench warfare, prisoner of war camps
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
Chlamydia trachomatis
Is responsible for what illness
Trachoma and Inclusion Conjunctivitis
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
STD
How is Chlamydia trachomatis transmitted
infects newborn during childbirth.
Nongonococcal Urethritis and Lymphogranulma venereum
Nongonococcal Urethritis and Lymphogranulma venereum
Chlamydia trachomatis
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
STD
Nongonococcal Urethritis and Lymphogranulma venereum is commonly asymptomatic in who?
adults
Rickettsias and Chlamydias
smallest, all obligate intracellular parasites
STD
Ehrlichia chaffeenis is responsible for what?
Human Monocyte Ehrlichiosis
HME and Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis HGE
Rickettsias and Chlamydiassmallest, all obligate intracellular parasites

How is Ehrlichia chaffeenis
transmitted
Arthropod-borne
What is the vector for Ehrlichia chaffeenis
Lone Star Tick, Deer Tick, Dog Tick
Unknown before 1986, considered emerging disease
How many cases of Ehrlichia chaffeenis have been seen annually since 2000
400
what does Ehrlichia chaffeenis
cause
Leukopenia
Fatal particularly in the elderly
Mycolasma is responsible for what?
Walking Pneumonia, Mycoplasmal Pneumonia or Primary Atypical Pneumonia
Mycoplasmas
Wall-less Tenericute
Cant use antibiotics that attack a cell wall as there is none.
How is Mycoplasma Pneumonia
transmitted?
Airborne,
droplets or contact with nasal secretions
Wall-less Tenericute
How long is the commuicability for Mycoplasma Pneumonia
20 Days
Wall-less Tenericute
How long does Mycoplasma Pneumonia persist in the pharynx
up to 13 weeks
Wall-less Tenericute
what is the incubation time of Mycoplasma Pneumonia
6-32 days
Wall-less Tenericute
When do epidemics of Mycoplasma Pneumonia typically occur
late summer or fall
Wall-less Tenericute
What do you treat Mycoplasma Pneumonia with
Erythromycin
Wall-less Tenericute
What is the morphology of gram positve cocci
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
Gram Positive Firmicute
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
Staphlococcus aureus is transmitted how?
Hospital aquired
Gram Positive Firmicute
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
What is Staphlococcus aureus known as
MRSA
Gram Positive Firmicute
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
How do you treat Staphlococcus aureus
Vancomycin only
Gram Positive Firmicute
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
What does Staphlococcus aureus do to the skin
causes various skin boils, carbuncles, furuncles, abscesses, sepsis, pneumonia, arthritis, osteomyelities, endocarditis, TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome), SSSS
Gram Positive Firmicute
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
What does MRSA stand for
Methlaycillan Resistant Staphlococcus Aureus
Gram Positive Firmicute
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
Staphlococcus Scalded Skin Syndrome and Staphlococcal food poisoning are transmitte how?
Skin Contact and Foodborne
Gram Positive Firmicute
cocci in clusters or packets that are strict aerobic or facultative anaerobic
Describe Family Streptococcaceae
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
will want 02 lower than normal
Streptococcaceae pyogenes has how many serologic types
80
Firmicute
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
what does Streptococcaceae pyogenes cause
streptococcal sore throat, skin infections, scarlet fever, Puerperal (Childhood) Fever, TSS, Rheumatic Fver and the recently famous Flesh Eating Disease, a strain with a particular Protease aggression
Firmicute
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
How is Streptococcaceae transmitted
Airborne, Skin Contact and Wound infection
Firmicute
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
Streptococcus pneumoniae causes what?
Bacterial meningitis
Firmicute
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
How is Streptococcus pneumoniae transmitted
Airborne, Otits Media (inflammation of the middle ear)
Firmicute
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
Who is Streptococcus pneumonia most likely to be seen in
Children under 5
Firmicute
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
Streptococcus pneumoniae is treated with
Pnuemovax/Prevnar
vaccine available since 2000
Firmicute
Cocci in pairs and chains that are strict anaerobic or aerotolerant
Describe Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic and Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Firmicute
Endospore Forming Rods and Cocci
Bacillus anthracis is responsible for what?
Cutaneous Anthrax (wound infection) and Respiratory Anthrax Airborne (rare naturally)
Firmicute
Endospore Forming Rods and Cocci
Bacillus anthracis is a zoonose true or false
True
Firmicute
Endospore Forming Rods and Cocci
Bacillus anthracis goes through livestock how?
wild resevoirs
Firmicute
Endospore Forming Rods and Cocci
Bacillus anthracis can be transmitted by direct contact with what?
infected tissues or soil
Firmicute
Endospore Forming Rods and Cocci
Bacillus anthracis causes what?
skin lesions called black eschar, septicemia, respiratory distress, fever, shock
Firmicute
Endospore Forming Rods and Cocci
Is there a vaccine available for Bacillus anthracis?
Yes to those who are high risk
Firmicute
Endospore Forming Rods and Cocci
Clostridium tetani causes what?
Tetanus or Lock Jaw
How is Clostridium tetani trasmitted
wound infections
Clostridium tetani is a common what
Soil saprophyte
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Clostridium tetani is found where
world wide
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Clostridium tetani will most likely survive in deep wound where infection is sealed off and it becomes
anaerobic
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Clostridium tetani neurotoxin to block release of inhibitory neurotransmitter allowng both a muscle and its antagonist to ___________unrelenting contraction of ___________causes________
contract
diaphragm
death
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Toxoid vaccine should be given when?
6 months and then every 10 years
DPT Vaccine
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Clostridium perfringens causes?
Clostridium Food Poisoning
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
How is Clostridium perfringens transmitted?
Foodborne, also Gas Gangrene - wound infection
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Where is Clostridium perfringens commonly found?
in soil and the GI tracts of humans and animals
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
what does Clostridium perfringens produce
11 toxins that lyse RBC's and WBC's, increasing vascular permeability, reduce BP and kills host cells
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Clostridium botulinum causes what?
Botulism
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Clostridium botulinum is transmitted how?
Foodborne
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Clostridium botulinum .....Infant Botulism is transmitted with the ingestion of?
endospores, commonly associated with high protein foods in anaerobic condition..home canning
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
What does the Neurotoxin block in Clostridium botulinum?
release of acetylcholine at neuromuscular junctions resulting in flacid paralysis
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
How many distinct botulism toxins are there (Clostridium botulinum)
7 (A - G) considered deadliest known toxins.
30gms of pure toxin would be enough to kill everyone in the U.S!!!!!
Gram Positive Firmicute
Endospore forming Rods and Cocci
Family Bacillaceae
Bacillus are facultative anaerobic
Clostridium are obligate anaerobes
Lactobacillus sp causes what?
No disease
mutalist symbiotic bacteria
Gram Postive Firmicute
Regular Nonsporing
Gram Positive Rods
Lactobacillus sp is a normal inhabitant of what?
The vagina of sexually active women
Gram Postive Firmicute
Regular Nonsporing
Gram Positive Rods
The presence of Lactobacillus inhibits what?
growth of other microbes, notably yeasts.
Gram Postive Firmicute
Regular Nonsporing
Gram Positive Rods
Where are some related species of Lactobacillus sp found?
fermented milk products, yogurt, cheese, buttermilk, sourdough
Gram Postive Firmicute
Regular Nonsporing
Gram Positive Rods
Listeria monocytogenes cause what?
Literiosis
Irregular nonsporing Gram Positive Rods
Firmicute
Listeria monocytogenes are transmitted how?
Foodborne
Irregular nonsporing Gram Positive Rods
Firmicute
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Diptheria
Irregular nonsporing Gram Positive Rods
Firmicute
Corynebacterium diphteriae is a known what?
childhood disease, acute bacterial disease of the upper respiratory/GI tract, greyish pseudomembrane in mucus membrane of throat
Irregular nonsporing Gram Positive Rods
Firmicute
Corynebacterium diphtheriae displays toxic efficts of ?
palsy and myocarditis

now rare due to DTP vaccine
Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes?
Tuberculosis
Mycobacteria
Firmicute
Mycobacterium tuberculosis shows in the lungs as ?
calcified tubercules that are indentified by xray.
Mycobacteria
Firmicute
what is the test used to diagnose tuberculosis?
Tuberculin diagnostic test, used to screen population for chronic carriers. Economically dependant, poor nutrition/health, new identified isoniazid resistant strains
Mycobacteria
Firmicute
Mycobacterium leprae causes?
Leprosy or Hansen's disease
Mycobacteria
Firmicute
How is Mycobacterium leprae transmitted
Skin contact,
Although...mode of transmission is still uncertain, probably contact with breaks in the skin or airborne for tuberculoid type
Mycobacteria
Firmicute

What is Leprosy
a chronic bacterial disease of the skin, peripheral nerves and upper air way
Mycobacteria
Firmicute
Streptomycetes and Related Genera
Streptomyces
Firmicute
Streptomyces sp causes what?
no disease
Steptomyces sp is found where?
common soil saprophyte
what is the number one antibiotic producer
Streptomyces sp
Kingdom Fungi are also called?
Mycetae
Kingdom Fungi were once part of ?
Kingdom Plantae.
Kingdom Fungi possess what kind of membrane?
nuclear membrane and mulitiple paired chromosomes
KF May be what kind of cells?
Single Cell - Yeasts (pseudohypha) and Multicellular forms - Molds (filamentous multicellular type
KF are chemoheterothrophs..
True or False
True....plants are autotrophs
KF movement is?
Mostly NON motile
The Cell wall for KF is?
rigid, made up of nitrogenous polysaccharides, Glucans, Mannans, and Chitin, but no Cellulose
How do KF get there food
ABSORB...excrete enzymes, grow on a substrate, extracellular digestion.
How can KF reproduce
ASEXUALLY (all the time)
Sexually (rarely)
How do KF reproduce primarily?
with hardy SPORES (both sexually and asexually produced) that are designed toi disseminate easily like plant seeds
What 2 kinds of Life styles do KF have
Most are Saphrophytes (existing entirely on dead organic material) A a Few are Parasitic 100/100,000 plants, a wide diversity of animals and some are human.
What are the 4 factors of Mycotic disease (Mycoses)
1.) commonly thought to be rare tropical diseases, but found everywhere.
2..)commonly misdiagnosed.
3.)testing has been slow and difficult
4.) more deaths in U.S. than typhoid, tetanus or polio
What is Dimorphism
Dimorphic Fungi a minority of species that can change between a single cell yeast to multicellular mold and back again
Yeasts cell structure?
except for dimorphic species they are always unicellular. May form a pseudohypha which can be thought of as a colony formation.
yeasts O2 requirements
Facultively anaerobic (w/ or w/out o2) only other microbes besides prokaryotes that are
What are yeast shape
egg shaped, elongated or spherical
Yeast size
5-30 microns in length, 1 to 5 microns in width
How do yeasts reproduce? and what does this form
budding
balstospores
Molds 02 requirements
strict aerobes
How do molds grow?
tubular strands called hypha
what is nonseptate?
No division between cells
what is uninucleate septate
central pore in septum, continuous cell membrane, one nucleus between each septa.
Multinuclaeate septate
More than one nucleus between septa
molds
what is mycelium
A mat of hyphae visible to the naked eye cobweb like
Macroscopic
MOLD
What is Aerial Mycelium
Exposed to 02, not to nutrients
MOLD
What is Vegetative Mycelium
exposed to nutrients not to O2
MOLDS

Has to grow where there is food
What are Stolons and Rhizoids
(VEG) extensions to establish new mycelium (plants)
MOLDS
What are Fruiting bodies
Reproductive cells source of spores, both types
MOLDS
What are the charactersics of SPORES
1.Produce in High numbers
2. easily disseminated
3. most are very resistant to adverse conditions
4. can remain viable for very long time periods waiting for suitable environment
MOLDS
What are the Sexual Spore Types
1. Zygospores
2. Oospores
3. Ascospores
4. Basidiospores
Zygospores
formed by union of gametangia
Oospores
modified tpe of zygospore formed by union o oogonium and antheridium
Ascospores
formed in an ASCUS (sac) may form in large ASCOCARPS
Basidiospores
Formed by BASIDIUM (club) may form in large BASIDIOCARPS
What are the (4) Medical Classifications of Mycoses
1.Systemic - typically airborne
2.Subcutaneous - typically wound infections (from soil)
3.Cutaneous- aka Dermatophytoses (Athletes foot, Ring worm, jock itch
4. Superficial upper most dead layers of skin or hair...White Piedra, Tinea Versicolor

Superficial



Most all mycoses are _______A_____which means the agent is living mostly as a ______B_______but takes the opportunity to infect host if the right conditions exist
A....OPPORTUNISTIC
B....SAPROPHYTES




Most mycoses are contracted from the?
Environment, where the pt comes in contact with high concentrations of spores
Mycoses are rarely spread in what way
from one infected host to another
Kingdom Fungi or ?
Mycota
Subkingdom of Fungi is?
Eumycophyta/The True Fungi
Phylum Zygomycota most are ?
Water Molds 1100 species
Phylum Zygomycota
Sexual spores are called
Zygospores and Oospores
Phylum Zygomycota
Asexual spores are called?
Sporangiospores
they are split up by sexual type
Phylum Zygomycota significant species:
Rhizopus sp
opportunistic, systemic, airborne, also is the classic bread mold
Phylum Zygomycota significant species:
Mucor sp.
opportunistic, systemic, Airborne
Phylum Zygomycota significant species:
Absdia sp.
opportunistic, systemic, Airborne
Rhizopus sp, Mucor sp, Abisidia sp:
Produce what kind of diseases
Zygomycoses
Zygomycoses diseases are commonly seen in who?
pts with uncontrolled diabetes, people who inject illegal drugs, cancer pts, pts receiving antimicrobial agents.
Infections from Zygomycoses diseases generally develop where on the body
In the face and head area, but can also develop elsewhere, including the lungs, GI tract or skin
Where can Rhizopus sp, Mucor sp, Abisidia sp:
be found
in the soil, on decaying organic matter, or as contaminants that cause food spoilage
Phylum Ascomycota are known as?
The SAC Fungi
32,000 known species
Spore types for Phylum Ascomycota?
Sexual Spores - Ascospores

Asexual spores - Conidiospores, Arthrospores, and Blastospores

Septate Hyphae or Yeasts
What is Bakers/Brewers Yeast?
Saccaromyces cerevisiae - NONPATHOGEN
Saccaromyces cerevisiae CO2
Ethanlol
Aerobically
Anaerobically
Also HIGH Content of vitamins and minerals
GREAT to add to food for added nutrient value
Candida albicans
Candidiasis
80% of healthy individuals have this in their GI tract
Passed to babies during childbirth
ASCOMYCOTA
Candida albicans can infect what tissues
can infect tissues in almost every body system and produce a wide range of diseases.
ASCOMYCOTA
Candida albicans mostly in?
5% of all newborns, 10% of all elderly and AIDS pts.
ASCOMYCOTA
Name three type of canidiasis
Thrush or oropharyngeal
Vulvovaginal
Urinary
ASCOMYCOTA
Aspergillus fumigatus causes?
Aspergillosis
Seen only in immunocomprimised pts...may become systemic
ASCOMYCOTA
Microsporum canis causes
tinea capitis (ringworm on head), Tiinea corporis (Ringworm on body)
ASCOMYCOTA
How is Microporum canis transmitted?
skin contact Dermatophyte
ASCOMYCOTA
Trichophytn sp causes
Tinea pedis (athletes foot) Tinea cruris (Jock itch)
Tinea coporis (ringworm on the body
Tinea captis (ringworm on head)
How is Trichophyton sp spread
skin contact
Dermatophyte
ASCOMYCOTA
Histoplasma capsulatum causes
Histoplasmosis
ASCOMYCOTA
Histoplasma capsulatum is tranmitted how
Airborne - systemic
Associated with Bird droppings
Systemic Subcutaneous Lesions
ASCOMYCOTA
Blastomyces dermatitidis causes
Blastomycois
ASCOMYCOTA
Blastomycosis is transmitted how?
Airborne systemic, associated with soil...causes subcutaneous lesions.
ASCOMYCOTA
Sporothrix schenckii causes
Sporothrichosis
Wound infection
ASCOMYCOTA
Pneumocystis Jeroveci causes
Pneumocystis pneumonia or interstitial cell pneumoia associated with AIDS patients
May be considered a Sporozoan (Protista)
Morchella sp produces
tasty asocarps called MORELS
ASCOMYCOTA
what was the first organism discovered to produce antibiotics
Penicillium notatum
ASCOMYCOTA
Coccidioides immitis causes
Coccididoidomycosis...San Joaquin Valley Fever

Airborne...associated with wet summers and dry falls, dust storms
spherule
a small number may become systemic
paracoccdioides brasiliensis causes
paracoccidioidomycosis

Airborne - systemic

initial respiratory infection that may disseminate
Lesions of mucous membranes of mouth and nose
MIMICS TB
ASCOMYCOTA
Phylum BASIDIOMYCOTA
is known as ?
THE CLUB FUNGI
22000 known species
BASIDIOMYCOTA
BASIDIOMYCOTA
Sexual spore type
Asexual spore type
Septate
Basidiospores (toadstools)
Conidiospores
Hyphae
BASIDIOMYCOTA
Basidiomycetes may produce?
BASIDIOCARPS

Produce poisons called MYCOTOXINS
some of the deadliest substances known to man
BASIDIOMYCOTA
Cryptococcus neoformans causes
Cryptococcosis
Airborne - Systemic
Bird droppings
BASIDIOMYCOTA
Phylum Deuteromycota
The Imperfect Fungi
Is becoming obsolete
Sexual Spore none or unknown
Asexual many
Septate Hyphae (may be yeast like or dimorphic)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
Epidermophyton floccisum
Tinea Pedis (athletes foot) Tinea Cruris (jock itch)
skin contact
Dermatophye
BASIDIOMYCOTA

Dermatophyte
Parasitology
study of both Protista and Animal Parasites
PROTISTA
Protozoology
Study of Protozoa - ol subkingdom of Animalia along with Metazoa
PROTISTA
Protista kingdom is made up of
single celled animals and single celled plants ..plus a number of odd balls that dont fit into either
PROTISTA
Protista are Eukaryotic
True or false
TRUE
Protista
Protista cell structure
All single celled
PROTISTA
Protista are Chemoheterotrophs(animal like) Photoautotrophs(Plant like)
YES THEY ARE!
PROTISTA
How do Protista eat?
ENGULF their food
PROTISTA
Protista Movement
MOTILE
PROTISTA
How do Protista reproduce
Sexually and Asexually and may have to do both to complete life cycle
PROTISTA
What about Protista cell walls
some have walls and some have shells
PROTISTA
Parasitic species have what kind of life cycles?
complex
PROTISTA
how many species of PROTISTA are there
64,000
10,000 are parasitic
PROTISTA
Kingdom protista has how many phylums?
27
4 of medical significance
PROTISTA
How do Sarcodina move?
Pseudopodia
SARCODINA
Move by pseudopodia
Entamoeba histolytica cause
Amebiasis, Amebic Dysentary, Montezomas revenge
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
how is Entamoeba histolytica transmitted
waterborne,
poor sanitation, ingestion of cysts, direct contact...food handlers
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
What is the treatment for Entamoeba histolytica
Metronidazole, Iodoqauinal, Dehydroemetine
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
Naegleria fowleri causes
Divers Disease, Amebic meningoencehalitis
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
How is naegleria fowleri transmited
exposure of nasal passages to contaminate water
stagnant ponds
lakes
hottubs
spas
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
Naegleria fowleri can cause hat
DEATH IN 10 days!!!
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
Where is naegleria fowleri found geographically?
Southern states
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
What is the treatment for naegleria fowleri
Amphotericin D (Fungizone)
SARCODINA
move by pseudopodia
Phylum II
Mastigophora
Move by what
Flagella (Undulopodia
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Trichomonas vaginalis causes
STD Trichomoniasis
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Trichomoniasis is reponsible for 3% of what?
nongonococcal urethritis, in women Vagintis frequently asymptomatic. In men persists in prostate,urethra or seinal vesicles
PAINFUL URINATION
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
What do you treat Trichomoniasis with
metronidazole (Flagyl)
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Giardia lamblia causes?
Hikers Dysentary, Giardiasis
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Giardia lamblia can be seen where (geographically) ?
WORLD WIDE
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
What are the symptoms of Giardia lamblia
Primarily infection of the upper small intestine, frequently asymptomatic, chronic diarrhea, steatorrhea, abdominal cramps, bloating, frequent loose and pale greasy stools, fatigue and weight loss.
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
What is the Reservoir for Giardia lamblia
Man, possibly beaver and other wild and domesticated animals.

Need to take canteen of water when hiking...NOT drink from streams, etc.
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
What do you treat Giardia lamblia with?
Metronidazole (Flagyl)
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Trypanosmoa brucei subspecies?
Causes what?
brucei, gambiense and _rhodesiense
African sleeping sickness
African Trypanosomiasis
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
What is Vector for Trypanosoma brucei?
Tse-tse fly
genus Glossina
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
What are the primary hosts for Trypanosoma brucei
wild antelope populations
ZOONOSE
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
what are symptoms of Trypanosoma brucei
painful chancre at bite site
fever
intense headache
inomnia
painless enlarged lymph nodes
local edema and rash
LATE STAGES = body wasting somnolence
symptoms may appear years after infection
How is Trypanosoma brucei treated
Pentamidine, Melarsoprol
(Mel-B)

High mortality rate if left untreated
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Trypanosoma cruzi causes?
Chaga's Disease
American Trypanosomiasis
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Trypanosoma cruzi's vector is?
Cone-nosed bug, gets you at night!
genus Triatoma
Family Reduviidae
Zoonose
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Trypanosoma cruzi causes what kind of infection?
SYSTEMIC....causing heart failure and meningoencephalitis
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Where is Trypanosoma cruzi found (geographically)?
South america and southern resevoirs, Man and over 150 species of domestic and wild animals
Dogs, cats, opossums, armadillos, wood rats are pimary hosts.
How do you treat Trypanosoma cruzi?
Nifurtimox
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Leishmania donovani causes
Kala-Azar, Post-Kala-Azar, Dermal leishmaniasis
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Leishmania donovani's vector is ?
Sandfly

Genus is Phlebotamus
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
What does Leishmania donovani cause to the body
FACIAL disfigurement
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Where is Leishmania donovani found (geographically)
South America, Africa, Southern Asia
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
L. Braziliensis
L. mexicana
Leishmania donovani

facial disfigurement (Espudia Uta)
Chiclero Ulcer, Bay Sore
Mastigophora
MOVE BY FLAGELLA
(UNDULOPODIA)
Phylum III
Ciliophora move how?
Cilia
Balantidiium coli causes
Balantidiasis or Bloody diarrhea
PHYLUM III
CILIOPHORA
MOVE BY CILIA
What are they symptoms of Balantidiium coli
nausea and vomiting....symptoms may resemble amebiasis
PHYLUM III
CILIOPHORA
MOVE BY CILIA
What are the resevoirs for Balantidium coli?
Humans, pigs and maybe rats...
Waterborne disease...may cause epidemics in areas wit poor sanitation.
may be fatal in those that are debilitated
PHYLUM III
CILIOPHORA
MOVE BY CILIA
How is Balantidium coli treated?
Metronidazole (Flagyl) and Tetracyclines
PHYLUM III
CILIOPHORA
MOVE BY CILIA
Phylum IV APICOMPLEXA
moves how?
Features an apical complex
Traphozoite
DOES NOT MOVE
APICOMPLEXA
NON MOTILE
APICAL COMPLEX
TROPHOZOITE
ALL ARE PARASITES
Plasmodium malariae
species =
plasmodium
PHYLUM III
CILIOPHORA
MOVE BY CILIA
what is the vector for Malaria?
Anopheles mosquito
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
How many people have Malaria?
100-300 million infected worldwide
2-4 million deaths every year
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
What is the treatment for malaria
Quinine derivatives
Chloroquine as prophylaxis
Primaquine as a control
Liver bound
Toxoplasma gondi causes
Toxoplasmosis, Congenital Toxoplasmosis
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
Who is the host for Toxoplasma gondi
CATS
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
How does Toxolasma gondi threaten the unborn?
Fetal infection can cause death or severe CNS damge
Cats get this from eating infected animals
oocysts in feces
Who are the intermediate hosts for Toxoplasma gondi?
sheep, goats, rodents,swine, cattle, chickens, and birds
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
How is Toxoplasma transmitted?
Eating raw or undercooked infected meat...ingestion of oocysts in food or water contaminated with feline feces
Childrens sandboxes
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
What is the treatment for Toxoplasmosis?
Pyrimethamine, Sulfadoxine, Fansider
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
Cryptosporidium sp causes
Cryptosporsis
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
How is Cryptosporidium sp transmitted?
Waterborne, Zoonose
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
What is Cryptosporidium sp associated with?
animal wastes contaminating drinking

Enteritis carried by cows sheep turkeys chickens, guinea pigs
Current water purification palnts do not filter out sporulated oocysts..small
NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DISSENTARY IN US IS?
Cryptosporidium sp
TROPHoZITE
non motile
all are parasites
lifecycles feature spore stage
What are the General Characteristics of the animal kingdom?
Eukaryotic
All are multicellular
All are chemoheterotrophs
Most are Motile
Sex is required
Specializatin of cells, tissues, and organs
Kingdom Animalia
What is the order of sophistication for Animal Kingdom?
Reproductive
Nervous
Digestive
Excretory
Respiratory
Phylum Platyheminthes are known as what worms?
FLAT WORMS
all their cells are near the surface
Platyhelmintes are very thin
true or false
YES
They are very thin in cross section
Platyhelminthes - Flatworms
Most Platyhlminthes have what kind of reproductive system?
Well developed, Most are Hermaphroditic (Male and Female organs in the same individual)
Platyhelminthes - Flatworms
Platyhelminthes have what kind of nervous and excretory system?
Rudimentary
very little
Platyhelminthes - Flatworms
Platyhelminthes have what kind of digestive or respiratory system..
NONE
Platyhelminthes - Flatworms
Class Cestoda are?
The Tapeworms
All Cestoda are?
parasites of other animals
Scolex, Rostellum, Suckers and Hooks (armed or unarmed) Proglottids (immature, mature and gravid)
are characteristics of what?
Tapeworms
Platyhelminthes - Flatworms
Class Cestoda
Name the Human Cestodes?
Taenia solium
Taenia pisiformis
Diphyllobothrium latus
Hymenolepis diminuta
Ehinococcus granulosis
HUMAN CESTODES
Human - Pork - Tapeworm
Taenia solium
HUMAN CESTODES
Human - Beef - Tapeworm
Taenia saginata
HUMAN CESTODES
Dog - Rabbit- Tapeworm
Taenia pisiformis
HUMAN CESTODES
Broad Fish Tapeworm,
Bears
Copopods
Fish
Diphyllobothrium latus
HUMAN CESTODES
Armed Dwarf Tapeworm,
Rats
Grain Beetles
Hymenolepsis nana
HUMAN CESTODES
Unarmed Dwarf Tapeworm
Rats
Grain Beetles
Hymenolepis diminuta
HUMAN CESTODES
Class Trematodes are the?
Flukes
Liver, Intesinal, lung, blood
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Clorinchis sinesis
ORIENTAL liver fluke
HUMANS/SNAIL/FISH
Liver Fluke
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Fasciola hepatica
Sheep Liver Fluke
Sheep/Snail/Aquatic Veg
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Intestinal Fluke
Fasciolopis buski
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Fasciolopis buski
Giant intestinal fluke
Human/Snail/Aquatic Veg
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Lung Fluke
Paragonimus westermanni
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
paragonimus westermanni
Mammal
Snail
Crab
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Blood Flukes
Schistosoma mansoni
Lower Nile River
Egypt
Hepatic Portal Veins
Seperate sexes
Sexual Dimorphism...male much larger
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Schistosoma life cylcle
Human
snail
human
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Schistomsoma haematobium
Upper Nile,
Sudan
Urinary Bladder plexus
Schistomsoma japonicum
Orient...MOST SERIOUS
HEPATIC portal~
MOST VIRULENT OF the Schistosomas
Tremetoda
Human Trematodes
NOT ALL ARE PARASITES
Gigantobilharzia sp
Trichobilharzia sp
Schistosomatium sp
Swimmers itch, Birds or muscrats or snails

BIRDS< SNAIL*HUMANS BY MISTAKE
discovered at Douglas Lake Mi 1901
Phylum Nematoda
Roundworms
Nematode Characteristics
SEX
Sexually Dimorphic seperate sexes..can look different from each other!
Nematode Sensory Receptors
Amphid - anterior end
Phasmid - Posterior end
Nematode GI tract
Complete...mouth, intestine, anus with a pseudocoelom
(false body cavity)
Nematode muscles?
Only longitudinal...
Cannot contract body
can only coil up, movement is snake like
Nematode cuticle?
outer covering of waxy material they secrete.
Non-antigenic, they must MOLT to grow...
Most Nemotodes live where?
In soil and vegitation
free living saprophytes
What is the most economically important of all parasites?
Nemetodes...
main reason our food decays
What age do you need to have to identify a nematode?
ADULT
JI
may be in egg
juvenile stage
Nematode
J2
Rhabditiform soil feeder
Nematode
J3
Filariform
typically infective stage
Adult
Egg producer
Phylum Nematoda
Roundworms
Ascarids
Large intestinal Roundworms
Nematoda