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Blood flagellate that cause visceral leishmaniasis |
Leishmania donovani |
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Where is Leishmania donovani mostly found? Where is Leishmania braziliensis mostly found? Where is Leishmania tropica mostly found? |
Leishmania donovani: East Africa, Mediterranean, Central and S America Leishmania braziliensis: Latin America Leishmania tropica: Tropical Africa, Mediterranean, Middle East, Western Hemi |
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2nd largest parasitic killer? |
Leishmania donovani |
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What is the least severe form of Leishmaniasis? |
Leishmania tropica |
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What is the vector for Leishmania? |
Sand fly |
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What is the stage of the Leishmania life cycle that is only present in the vector? Which one is present in humans? |
Promastigotes in vector Amastigotes in humans |
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What is this? |
Leishmania (Amastigote stage) bursting out of a macrophage |
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What is this? What is it inside of? |
Leishmania (amastigote) inside of a macrophage "Leishman-Donovan" body |
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What is this? What is it inside of? |
Leishmania (amastigote) inside of a macrophage "Leishman-Donovan" body |
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ID this parasite. |
Leishmania species (amastigote) it's a biopsy of the spleen. Think red, so blood/visceral parasite (flagellate) on they are inside of the WBC |
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What causes African Sleeping Sickness? What is the vector? Which stage is found in humans? |
Trypanosoma brucei Tsetse fly Trypomastigote stage |
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What's this? |
Trypanosoma brucei |
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What's this? |
Trypanosoma brucei Features: undulating membrane, small kinetoplast |
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What stage of the Trypanosome cruzi life cycle is found in humans? |
BOTH trypomastigote AND amastigote |
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Name for the disease caused by T. brucei: |
African Sleeping Sickness |
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What is the vector for American Trypanosomasis? Which Americas? |
Reduviid bug LATIN america |
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Which parasite causes disease in which the chronic stage presents with an ENLARGED heart |
Trypanosoma cruzi "Chagas Disease" |
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What does this poor soul have? What is that enlargement called?" _____ Sign" |
Chugs disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi Ramona's sign |
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What is different about the life cycle of T. cruz versus T. brucei (once it is in the human)? |
T. cruzi goes from trypomastigote to amastigote inside the human In T. brucei, only the trypomastigote is present in humans |
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ID this parasite. What kind of parasite is it? |
Trypanosoma cruzi Hemoflagellate Look for C shape. Cruzi=C |
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Trypansoma cruzi trypomastigotes are the only stage found in the ________ of an infected person. |
BLOOD. Amastigotes are found in tissues |
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ID this parasite |
T. cruzi these are amastigotes in tissue during a chronic infection |
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What is it called when you infect an animal/insect with a patient sample and then test it to see what it has? |
xenodiagnosis |
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ID this parasite What features lead to this decision? |
T. cruzi In the blood with flagella (hemoflagellate) it has an undulating membrane, a large kinetoplast and is in a C shape so more likely to be T. cruz and not T. brucei |
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ID this parasite |
T. cruzi C shape, Large kinetoplast |
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What's the name for the kissing bug? What parasite is it a vector for? |
Reduviid bug transmits Trypanosoma cruzi (American trypanosomiasis) |
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ID |
T. cruzi. Not so C-shaped, but does have a large kinetoplast |
