CROSSWORD PUZZLE

This crossword puzzle was designed to test the students knowledge of parasitology and have fun doing it. All the questions are of a parasitological origin albeit a few straddle the margin between science and lay society.

 

 

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01. Beavers _____________
02. Bengal Tigers ____________
03. Balantidium locomotor organelles ________________
04. Clonorchis ova exit vehicle _____________________
05. Panama Canal fever _________
06. piscean ectoparasite________
07. Focus of infection __________________
08. living in a "sea of food" _________________
09. Most common human-infecting nematode _____________
10. Energy source for oocyst ___________
11. Habitat of Epidinium _______________
12. Bony (Latin spelling) ______________
13. Amoebic dysentery __________________
14. Host of Fasciola ______________
15. Host of Fascioloides magna ________
16. Egg capsules _________
17. Transmitted by Chrysops ___________
18. Host of Trypanosoma equinum _________
19. Equine veneral disease _________________
20. Eggs of second intermediate host of Diphyllobothrium_____
21. Megalodiscus host ________
22. Supportive rod in Trichomonas ________________
23. Onchocerca skin _____________
24. Ovary contribution to ootype ______
25. Literal meaning of Necator________
26. black ____________
27. Probably didn't bring two of each parasite _________
28. Boophilus annulatus ________
29. Cervid ___________
30. Coenuriasis _________
31. "wings" in pinworms _________
32. Hydrophobia __________
33. Loss of passive immunity ____________
34. Mallophaga __________________
35. Vein of S.haematobium habitat flows into this vein _______
36. Vector of Wucheria ___________
37. Vertebrate host of Trypanosoma lewisi __________
38. Assassin bug ____________
39. Fugitive's disease ________________
40. Lancet habitat ______________
41. Site of filariform invasion __________
42. Epimastigote metabolism _________________
43. Serves as host for Aphidiid wasps ___________
44. 10,000 Angstroms ______________
45. South American host of Trypanosoma evansi ____________
46. _ _ _ _isiev_____
47. Counterstain for Schuffner's dots _____________
48. Whipworm disease _______________
49. Pinworm of Equus _______________
50. Fungi nearly extincted these _______________
51. Espundia ___________
52. Common mechanical host _______________
53. Water bird host of Trichobilharzia ______________
54. Stichorchis location in beavers ______________
55. Eyeworm disease _______________
56. Former name of country endemic to Echinococcus multilocularis ______________
57. Genetic immunity to Plasmodium falciparum ______________
58. Shortened name of Procyon ___________
59. Subclass of Sporozoea _______________
60. Insecticide _______________
61. Enterobius ______________
62. _ _ _ _ _ _morpha__________
63. Common epidemiological factor ____________
64. Host of Eimeria in New Zealand _________
65. Transmission stage of Apicomplexa _____________
66. Culture medium _________
67. Likely epidemiological focus for Dracunculus mediensis ____________
68. Disease caused by Rikettsia typhi ____________
69. _ _ _ -tse __________
70. Injurious symbiont _______________
71. Short name for piscean ciliate _______________
72. Feces _________
73. Diagnosis for Trypanosoma cruzi ______________
74. in reference to a joint________________
75. Strip of land in middle East, endemic to dracunculiasis _____________
76. Marsh disease _______________
77. Nosema host ______________
78. Discoverer of Distomum _____________
79. Sensory receptor in nematodes ______________
80. Ancylostoma host in Belgium ______________
81. Cuttlefish host of mesozoan ___________
82. Parasitic tick of bats and birds _____________
83. Leishmania sentinel __________
84. Reticulum, omasum, abomasum, and _________
85. Taenia species using sheep as intermediate host ____________
86. Hypnozoites ____________
87. Mosquito vector of Wuchereria _____________
88. Poultry cestode _________________
89. Viral brain disease _______________
90. Flatworms don't have one ___________
91. Prefix describing Clonorochis ovary ___________
92. Ciliate of humans ___________________
93. Leishmania vector ___________________
94. _ _ _ _ _-African Railroad _____________
95. Infection site of Trypanosoma cruzi ____________
96. Vector of murrina _________________
97. _ _ _ _-filaria; heartworm ___________
98. Site of Leishmania donovani (adjective) _______________
99. Rat trypanosome ___________
100. Prefix asc-; literal meaning __________
101. Infectious stages of schistosomes (plural) _____________
102. Dissolving ___________
103. Latin for sewer ___________
104. Diurnal _________
105. Rare Plasmodium ___________
106. Itch caused by hookworms ________________
107. Trichonympha host ______________
108. "fiery serpent" ________________
109. _ _ _ _-nosed bugs _____________
110. Male host of Hexamita meleagridis _____________
111. Hosts of Trichinella ___________________
112. Paragonimus host ________________
113. prostate parasite __________________
114. Common source of alveolar hydatid disease ____________
115. Father of Parasitology _______________
116. Vitelline ___________
117. Source of clonorchiasis ______________
118. Site of chiclero ulcer ____________
119. Dioctophyma renale host organ ________________
120. Plague bacterium _______________
121. Anisakis is found there ____________
122. Oral flagellate _______________
123. _ _ntastomida _______________(high up on the grid)

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1. fowl family ________________
2. cirrus _____________
3. Bovine _____________
4. Hookworm genus _______________
5. Definitive host Plasmodium _________________
6. Sex toy transmitting Trichomonas vaginalis ____________
7. Trypanosome inhibitor ________________
8. Regurgitate ___________
9. Hydrographic conditions for Dracunculus _________
10. Original host of Plasmodium malariae _______________
11. Oxidative phosphorylation ________________
12. Produces cercariae _____________
13. Mild symptoms of amoebiasis ________________
14. Shell gland ___________
15. Two generation trematodes _________________
16. Feverish ___________
17. Mechanical host of Histomonas _____________________
18. House fly ________________
19. Proglottid _______________
20. Amoebiasis _______________
21. Loa site _____________
22. Site of Entamoeba in small intestine _____________
23. Generations following sporocyst ___________________
24. Cyclops _____________
25. Marinade for "drunken crab" ____________________
26. Site of fertilization in trematodes ____________
27. Of the far East ________________
28. Immature stage _________________
29. Eyeworm of camels ______________
30. Insect trypanosomatid __________________
31. Dum-dum fever _____________________
32. Maintenance host __________________
33. 3rd day ____________________
34. Armed ____________________
35. Inflammation (suffix) __________________
36. Taeniarhyncus saginata intermediate host _____________
37. Larva of lice ________________
38. Hooks _______________________
39. Supports undulating membrane __________________
40. Uncinaria host ________________
41. East Coast Fever ___________________
42. Pipestem fibrosis __________________
43. Female host of Trichinella ___________________
44. Largest intestinal roundworm of man _________________
45. Adjust to environment ___________________
46. Pharmaceutical name of quinicrine ________________
47. Nematode cephalic sensory organelles ___________________
48. Australian "bear" _____________________
49. Inherited immunity _____________________
50. The goal of the epidemiologist __________________
51. The southern part of this country has hookworms ___________
52. Bilharziasis ________________________
53. "Disease of" (suffix) ___________________
54. Site of Acanthamoeba infection ________________
55. Hexacanth ___________________
56. Rabbits in Fasciola ________________
57. Wheel bug ___________________
58. Host of Sarcocystis cruzi ______________________
59. Elephantiasis in Malaysia ______________________
60. Two sporocysts per oocyst ______________________
61. Vector of Onchocerca ___________________________
62. Siberian intermediate host of Echinococcus multilocularis _________________
63. Filarial drug ______________________
64. Schizogeny _______________
65. Mosquito transmitted viral fever______________________
66. Kissing bug _______________________
67. Synthetic antimalarial _________________________
68. Disease prevalent in Kenya _____________________
69. Stomoxys ______________________
70. Most common fluke of aquatic animals ____________________
71. Host of Trichobilharzia ____________________
72. Fertilization in Gregarina ___________________
73. Brown stomach worm ___________________________
74. Continent in Japan is found ________________________
75. West African ___________________
76. Eastern Hemisphere (world) __________________________
77. Infection with Wuchereria ______________________
78. Hemipteran ______________________
79. Cestodes have this, but most trematodes don’t ____________
80. Village of Dum-dum ______________
81. Ciliated larva ____________________
82. Falciparum has kidney-shaped ________________________
83. Sheep liver rot ____________________
84. Trophozoite of Plasmodium _________________
85. Utterance of Trypanosoma equiperdum host_________________
86. Host of Eimeria stiedae _____________________
87. Cysticerci in beef and pork _________________
88. Endemic country for T. b. rhodesiense__________________
89. Free-living nematode larva ____________________
90. Toxocara cati host ______________
91. Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis _________________
92. Acetabulum _______________
93. A way in which many host become infected________________
94. Genetic protection against Plasmodium falciparum _____________
95. Blood cavity(old world spelling) _________________
96. Host of Hemoproteus columbae _________________
97. Semisulcospira and Fossaria_________________________
98. Plasmodium ovale tertian _________________________
99. Lymph ___________
100. Mebendazole ______________
101. Didelphic in Ascaris _________________
102. Aswan __________
103. Leucocytozoan simondi host/bird referred to in "On Golden Pond" ____________________
104. Host of Lagochilascaris ______________
105. Equine host/also starred in star of a TV series "Mr. ___" (higher up on grid)
106. Tsetse genus ______________
107. African ungulate host of T.b. brucei ______________
108. Acanth _____________
109. Wealth of Masai _________________
110. Mosquito genus transmitting Wuchereria ________________
(higher up on grid)