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15 Cards in this Set
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Entamoeba histolytica
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Transmitted by contamination, hand/mouth and sex
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Giardia lamblia/instestinalis/duodenalis
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Found in H20, food or hands/fomites
Montazumas revenge |
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Balantidium coli
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Found in animals
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Isospora belli/Cyclospora cayetanesis/Cryptosporidium parvum/hominis
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Infect intestinal epithelium; has both sexual/asexual stages
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Trichomonas vaginalis
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Urogenital flagellate and diagnose with vaginal smear/wet mount
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Naegleria fowleri/Acanthamoeba culbertsoni and Balamuthia mandrillaris
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Amoeboflagellates that are primary CNS pathogens
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Trypanosoma gambiense/rhodesiense
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Carried by Tse Tse fly and cause African sleeping sickness
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T. cruzi
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Causes Chagas disease and acquired from reduviid bug
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Leishmania tropica
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Cutaneous variant
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Leishmania brasiliensis
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Mucocutaneous variant
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Leishmania donovanii
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Visceral variant
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Leishmania species
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Carried by phlebotomine sand fly
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Tissue sporozoa
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Plasmodium spp., Babesia and Toxoplasma gondii
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Tissue sporozoa
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Have 2 life cycles, with sporogony in definitive host and schizogony in intermediate host
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Babesiosis
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Tranmitted by Ixodes (ticks)
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