My Stomach Hurts!
Nonpathogenic intestinal amoeba that resembles Entamoeba histolytica morphologically but is much smaller
What is Entamoeba hartmani?
Malarial parasite that infects ALL RBCs and causes "malignant malaria" due to clotting of blood in capillary beds
What is Plasmodium falciparum?
Most common collection method used to demonstrate infection with pinworms
What is the Cellophane Tape Test?
Roundworm whose egg is oval with one flattened side and motile larva
What is Enterobius vermicularis?
Microfilarial parasite found in the blood that causes calabar swelling and exhibits diurnal periodicity (it's Ayden's favorite)
What is Loa loa?
Intestinal flagellate that is the most common cause of protozoal gastroenteritis that shows a characteristic kite-shaped trophozoite that exhibits falling leaf motility
What is Giardia duodenalis?
2 species of Plasmodium that infect YOUNG RBCs and demonstrate Schuffner's dots upon peripheral smear
What are Plasmodium vivax & Plasmodium ovale?
Class of worms characterized by adults with flat, segmented proglottids and a scolex
What are Cestodes?
Number of nuclei in the cyst form of Entamoeba coli
What is 1 - 8?
Term for the structure found in the peripheral blood of those with African Sleeping Sickness; detection may be enhanced by examination of the Buffy Coat
What are trypomastigotes?
Pathogenic intestinal amoeba that has rounded end chromotoidal bars, up to 4 nuclei and shows ingested RBCs
What is Entamoeba histolytica?
Species of Plasmodium that infects OLD RBCs, does not demonstrate Schuffner's dots & causes Quartan Fever
What is Plasmodium malariae?
Trematode whose eggs may be recovered in the urine or bladder biopsy
What is Schistosoma haematobium?
Intestinal coccidia with oocysts that have a wrinkly, granular or bubbly appearance that stain from clear - purple with modified acid fast staining
What is Cyclospora cayetanensis?
Pattern of fever characterized by regular fever spikes that occur every 48 hours
What is Tertian Fever?
Nonpathogenic intestinal amoeba that has 1 nucleus and a large glycogen vacuole that stains deeply with iodine
What is Iodamoeba butschli?
Causative agent of Chagas Disease that is acquired from a bite from a reduviid bug
What is Trypanosoma cruzi?
Step in the life cycle of Ascaris lumbricoides that must occur for the mature adult to live in the host's intestine
What is liver - lung migration?
Number of uterine branches seen in the gravid proglottids of Taenia saginata
What is 15 - 30?
Blood filaria acquired from sandflies that causes cutaneous, mucocutaneous or visceral forms of disease
What is Leishmania spp?
Intestinal coccidia that causes watery diarrhea in immunocompromised patients and stains positively with AFB staining
What is Cryptosporidium parvum?
Blood parasite transmitted by the Ixodes tick and detected by presence of "Maltese Cross" formations of tetrads on peripheral smear
What is Babesia spp?
Cestode infection characterized by encysted larval forms found in the tissue, most notably in the brain
What is Cysticercosis?
Cestode with 4 suckers on its scolex and an armed rostellum; proglottids have < 13 uterine branches
What is Taenia solium?
3 characteristics of Plasmodium falciparum that may seen on peripheral smear
What are "headphone" forms, Maurer clefts and banana shaped gametocytes?