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sporozoans that produce oocysts and stain acid fast
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cryptosporidium, cyclospora, isopora
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what populations would you see microsporidia in
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HIV, immune deficiency patients
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why is cryptosporidium major threat to water supplies
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resitant oocytes, large number, and are immediately infective
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describe giardia
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flagellate protozoan
trophozoite and cyst stage(infectious) fecal oral route contaminated water |
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describe cryptosporidium
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ooctye comes out fecally ***Immediately infectious
common in HIV pateints |
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cyclospora
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acid fast
oocyst, not immediately infection no transmission between people |
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enatmoeba
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bloody diarrhea, travel outside US
trophozoite and cyst stage fecal oral digests RBCs**** diarrhea, then invasive, liver abcess, URQ pain |
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isospora
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protozoan
infective oocysts, acid fast nono bloody diarrhea assoc with tropics and HIV |
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balantidium
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only ciliated protozoan that infects human*****
associated with pigs, cysts in fecal material of human destroys mucosa, inflammatory bloody diarrhea |