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11 Cards in this Set
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Which host of Toxoplasma sp. are the definite host? |
Cats |
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Which host of Toxoplasma sp. are the intermediate host? |
Humans |
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What stage of the Toxoplasma life cycle is associated with the definite host? |
Sexual |
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Four routes of Toxoplasma transmission: |
1. inhalation/injestion of oocyst from cat poop 2. ingestion of contaminated meat that has cysts full of bradyzoites in them 3. blood transfusion 4. congenital |
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Toxoplasma gondii Tachyzoites |
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Toxoplasma gondii Hundreds of bradyzoites inside heart muscle |
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Toxoplasma gondiiHundreds of bradyzoites inside heart muscle |
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Pneumocystis jiroveci Black stained walls from silver stain |
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Pneumocystis jiroveci Nuclei stained pink from Giemsa stain, doesn't stain cell wall |
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What stain can be used along with a UV microscope to visualize Pneumocystis jiroveci? |
Calcofluor white It stains chitin in the cell wall. They fluoresce with a blue-white color |
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Pneumocystis jiroveci trophs with giemsa stain |
