Parasitology Exam

flagellates,amoebae,sporozoans, ciliates

I.  Name the organism described (50 points)

1.  occluded cerebral blood vessels, co-evolved with hereditary blood disorder

2.  beavers, contaminated water filters, binucleate

3.  cysts in stool, fever, chills, hepatic necrosis

4.  amastigotes, cardiac arrhythmia, promastigotes in culture

5.  longitudinal asexual division, parabasal body, trophozoite as infective stage, large intestine

6.  colon, iodine, uninucleate cyst

7.  headache, pre-natal infections, raw meat

8.  mahogany red urine

9.  enlarged viscera, intracellular

10.  swollen cervical lymph nodes, dipteran vector, spinal fluid

11.  acidic environment, mutualist, vestigial infraciliature

12.  cutaneous lesions, cytoplasmic fragmentation in cyst, piscine host

13.  hyperparasite of Heterakis gallinae, inflammation of liver and intestine

14.  destruction of placental membranes, sterility

15.  Stomoxys calcitrans, canines as reservoirs, orient and elsewhere

16.  posterior station, spleen involvement, Taliaferro

17.  Bayer 7602, nocturnal hemipterans, C-shaped

18.  venereal disease, cosmopolitan, four flagella

19.  Hakannson's phenomenon, no cyst, hyperparasite of Enterobius vermicularis

20.  vitamin deficiency, duodenum, diarrhea, octoflagellate

21.  transmission by cyst, tetracycline, transverse fission

22.  "spores", oocyst, 500 micrometer trophozoite, sperm eaters

23.  Texas cattle fever, Boophilus annulatus

24.  applique rings, blackwater fever

25.  adenohypophyseal control of commensal life cycle, Continental Drift Hypothesis

II.  Define (25 points)

1.  xenodiagnosis

2.  night soil

3.  zoonosis

4.  prophylaxis

5.  prognosis

6.  Maurer's dots

7.  kinetoplast

8.  gamont

9.  kinetosome

10.  Winterbottom's sign

11.  ablastin

12.  trailing flagellum

13.  exflagellation

14.  premunitiion

15.  eclipsing antigens

16.  ameboma

17.  Romana's sign

18.  protomerite

19.  macrophage

20.  coprozoite

21.  espundia

22.  haemocoele

23.  syzygy

24.  chondriome

25.  metronidazole

III.  Identify the epidemiological factors which enhance the spread of the following parasites through a population. (25 points)

1.  Entamoeba histolytica

2.  Leishmania braziliensis

3.  Trichomonas vaginalis

4.  Toxoplasma gondii

5.  Eimeria tenella