Parasitology — Flashcards

_____ shows jerky motility

Due to villous atrophy in _____, deficiencies in epithelial brush border enzymes such as lactase may develop.

Hint: which parasitic infection

Trypanosoma brucei has two subspecies; either _____ or T. rhodesiense

_____ is a flagella-ted intestinal non-invasive parasite responsible for most flagellated protozoan small intestine colonizations in the U.S.

_____ that contain endocytosed RBCs are diagnostic of Entamoeba histolytica

Subcutaneous, '_____' swellings are diagnostic of the helminth Loa loa

The eggs of _____ are boat-shaped with lateral floats.

_____ , a helminth, enters the blood through the intestinal wall, making their way to the lungs; mucociliary escalator eventually causes them to be swallowed into the GI tract

What diagnostic tests are run to test for Giardia?_____

_____ is the etiology of Chagas Disease

Hint: bug