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What Amoebas can be treated with Metronidiazole?

What does Metrodiazole do?
1) Entamoemba histolytica (amoeba stage)

2) Di-Entamoemba fragillis

3) Blastocystis hominis

4) Giardias lamblia

5) Trichomonas Vaginalis

Metronidazole inhibits DNA synthesis and protein function
Px for Entamoeba histolytica?
Metronidazole
Px for Di-Entamoeba fragilis?
Metronidazole
Px for Blastocytosis hominis?
Metronidiazole
Px for Acanthamoeba castellani?
proPAMidine
Px for Naegleria fowleri?
AMP:

AMPhotericin B and rifAMPin
Px for Balantidium coli
4: tetracycine and surgery
Px for Cryptospodium parvum
Parvum = Paromomycin

SL
Px for Cyclospora cayetanensis
TMP-SMX

SL
Px for Isospora belli
TMP-SMX

SL
Px for Toxoplasm gondii
Pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine
Px for Giardiasis lamblia
Metronidazole
Px for Trichomonas vaginalis
Metronidazole
Px for Microsporidia spp
Albendaxole for GI: Nosemia and Vittaforma

Fumagillin for eye: Enerocytozoon
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas dont have cysts?
1) Di-entamoeba

2) Trichomonas vaginalis
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas have oocysts?
1) Crytosporidium
2) Cyclospora
3) Isospora belli
4)Toxoplasma gondii
what infects humans by spores?
Microsporidia spp

Nosemia
Vittaforma
Enterocytozoon
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas cause accidental human infection?
1) Acanthamoeba castellani
2)Naegleria fowleri
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas have only humans as reservoirs and definitive hosts?
1) Blastocystis hominis
2) Isospora belli
3) Trichomoniasis
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas have humans and swine as reservoirs and definitive hosts?
Balantidiasis Coli (swine lake)
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas is cilliated?
Balantidiasis
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas is a STD?
Trichomonas vaginalis
This non-arthropod-borne amoebas have non-human mammals, fish, birds, and insects as reservoir and definitive hosts
Micorsporidia
Nosemia
Vittaform
Enterocytozoon
This non-arthropod-borne amoebas has humans, birds, and reptiles as reservoir and definitive hosts.
Cyclospora cayetanensis
This non-arthropod-borne amoebas has cats as definitive hosts with rodents, chickens, sheep, seine and cattle as reservoirs and intermediate hosts. Humans are dead end hosts
Toxoplamosis
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas can cause inflamation of the gallbladder?
Giardia
what is the most common diagnosed GI in the US?
Giardia
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas has tlagellated trophosites and no cyst stage?
Trichamonas vaginalis
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas secretes hyaluronidase and proteolytic enzymes
Balantidium
non-arthropod-borne amoeba where there is no cyst stage and the amoeba stage is infectous to humans
Dientamoeba fragilis
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas hitches a ride inside the eggs of Enterbius vermicularis?
Dientamoeba fragilis
A round amoeba with 2 nuclei
Dientamoeba fragilis (di=2)
An amoeba containing a central karyosome or cysts containing 1-4 nuclei.
Entamoeba histolytica
What non-arthropod-borne amoebas are self limiting diseases?
1) cryptosporidium parvum
2) Cyclospora cayetanensis
3) Isopora belli
non-arthropod-borne amoebas that instill protective immunity?
1)isospora belli
2)Toxoplasma gondii
non-arthropod-borne amoebas that instill partial protective immunity?
Microsporidia
Diagnosis: Unsporulated glassy wrinkled spherical oocysts in acid fast stain
Cyclospora
non-arthropod-borne amoebas that cause malabsorption
1)cryptosporidium pavum
2) cyclospora cayetanensis
3)Isospora belli
Diagnosis:cilliated ovoid trophosites or cysts containing kidney shaped macronuclei
Balantidum coli
the non-arthropod-borne amoebas that cause bloody diarrhea and dysintery with severe diarrhea
entamoeba histolytica: bloody diarrhea:

Balantidiasis: dysintery with severe diarrhea:
What is the most commonly diagnosed intestinal parasite in the US and is frequently found in outbreaks in children in day care centers and is a cause of traveler's diarrhea?
Giardia lamblia
flagellated trophozoites
1) Giaradia lamblia
2) Trichomonas vaginalis
3) Naegleria fowleri -biflagellated
Cilliated trophozoites
Balantidum coli
Primary amebic meningoencephalitis
Naegleria fowleri (fowl play)
Amebiasis
Entamoeba histolytica
how do meronts multiply in microporidiosis?
binary and/or multiple fission and spread cell-to-cell
diagnosis: spores with central waistbands and coild polar tubule and 2 nuclei inside the spore body
Microsporidia
-Nosemia spp
-Vittaform spp
-Enterocytozoon spp
What type of infection do Nosemia and Vittaform cause? How would you treat it?
Eye infections
treat with Fumagillin
What type of infection does Enterocytozoon cause? How would you treat it?
intestinal infections
treat with albendazole