Parasitology- Exam review- Questions And
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Which of the following is the cause of Chagas disease? Trypanosoma cruzi
Chagas disease is on the CDC's list of the 5 Neglected Parasitic Diseases in the USA True
Trypomastigotes of which of the following when seen in peripheral blood smears typ...
Which of the following is the cause of Chagas disease? Trypanosoma cruzi
Chagas disease is on the CDC's list of the 5 Neglected Parasitic Diseases in the USA True
Trypomastigotes of which of the following when seen in peripheral blood smears typically
appear as horse-shoe shapes? Trypanosoma cruzi
The "Leishman-Donovan Body" is an older term for which stage? Amastigote
The insect vector for leishmanial parasites is the Sand Fly
In cases of leishmaniasis, which of the following stages would be seen in biopsied tissue
Amastigote
In the early to mid 2000s, in which group of people were several hundred cases of cutaneous
leishmaniasis seen? US military deployed to Iraq
, Parasitology- Exam review- Questions And
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The nematodes of man can be divided into which two main groups Blood/tissue-dwelling
and the intestinal roundworms
For the filarial roundworms, the definitive host is Man
The two most useful features for identifying microfilaria to genus in peripheral blood smears are
Sheath or no sheath and nuclei in the tail
Which of the following is increasingly being recognized as an important pathogen associated
with raccoons Baylisascaris procyonis
Which of the following has eggs that are infectious on release or very shortly (<6hrs) thereafter
from the female Enterobius vermicularis
Which of the following does not have a larval migration stage through the body of infected
persons Trichuris trichuria
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