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AAB MT MICROBIOLOGY + PARASITOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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AAB MT MICROBIOLOGY +PARASITOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS
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Common name: Pinworm - Answer-enterobius vermicularis
Female lays eggs on perianal area which can be found by cellophane tape in the
morning - Answer-enterobius vermicularis
common name: whipworm - Answer-trichuris trichuria
main characteristic of trichuris trichuria - Answer-egg looks like a lemon with two hyaline
plugs
common name: new world hookworm - Answer-necator americanus
common name: old world hookworm - Answer-ancylostoma duodenale
how does new world/old work hookworm autoreinfect? - Answer-enters through the skin
through the bloodstream then to the lungs which is coughed up and sent back to the
intestines
common name: threadworm - Answer-strongyloides stercoralis
how do you differentiate between strongyloides stercoralis and necator
americanus/ancylostoma duodenale? - Answer-the buccal cavity, strongyloides has a
buccal cavity
common name: trichinosis - Answer-trichinella spiralis
main characteristic of trichinella spiralis? - Answer-encysted larvae in the muscle and
consumed through ingestion of undercooked muscle
common name: large intestine roundworm - Answer-ascaris lumbricoides
what is the path of ascaris lumbricoides? - Answer-small intestines --> liver --> lungs
largest intestinal nematode? - Answer-ascaris lumbricoides
common name: bancroft's filaria - Answer-wuchereria bancrofti
how does wuchereria bancrofti enter the body? - Answer-mosquitos have a blood meal
and enter through the skin
, characteristic of wuchereria bancrofti? - Answer-sheath and no nuclei in tail
common name: malayan filaria - Answer-brugi malayi
how do you get malayan filaria? - Answer-from mosquitos
characteristics of malayan filaria? - Answer-sheath, nuclei in tail but not continuous
common name: eyeworm - Answer-loa loa
how do you get loa loa? - Answer-from flies
characteristics of loa loa? - Answer-sheath and continuous nuclei in tail
common name: dwarf tapeworm - Answer-hymenolepsis nana
which parasite is immediately infective? - Answer-hymenolepsis nana
what is the intermediate host of hymenolepsis nana? - Answer-there is none!
common name: beef tapeworm - Answer-taenia saginata
common name: pork tapeworm - Answer-taenia solium
common name: broadfish tapeworm - Answer-diphyllobothrium latum
characteristic of diphyllobotrium? - Answer-cup-shaped suckers on scolex
common name: hydatid tapeworm - Answer-echinococcus granulosis
characteristics of echinococcus granulosis - Answer-comes from dogs, humans
accidental host
how do you develop an infection from cestodes? - Answer-ingestion
common name: large intestinal fluke - Answer-fasciolopsis buski
common name: sheep liver fluke - Answer-fasciola hepatica
how do you get fasciolopsis buski? - Answer-human eats snail from uncooked water
plants
common name: chinese liver fluke - Answer-clonorchis sinensis
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