POLISH YOUR APOLLON PARASITOLOGY

1. Motile, feeding stage of protozoa: TROPHOZOITE

2. Amoeba with chromatoid bodies in the cyst stage: ENTAMOEBA
3. Amoebiasis: ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA
4. Organ of the body most often involved in extraintestinal amoebiasis: LIVER
5. True amoeba: GENUS ENTAMOEBA
6. Nonmotile, nonfeeding and infective stage of amoeba: CYST
7. Mature cyst of Entamoeba polecki: ONE (1) NUCLEUS
8. Amoeba cyst with chromatoid bodies that have two pointed ends or that can be round, triangular or
oval: ENTAMOEBA COLI
9. Point of differentiation between E. histolytica and E. hartmanni: SIZE
10. Mature cyst of E. histolytica: FOUR (4) NUCLEI
11. Failure to find bacteria in purulent spinal fluid: POSSIBILITY OF INFECTION WITH AMOEBA
12. Achromatic granules surrounding its karyosomal chromatin: IODAMOEBA BUTSCHLII
13. Double-walled, wrinkled cyst form: ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII
14. Cyst that possess a single nucleus and a large glycogen vacuole that stains deeply with iodine:
IODAMOEBA BUTSCHLII
15. Spiny, hyaline extensions of some amoeba: ACANTHOPODS
16. Staining procedures for species of Naegleria and Acanthamoeba: H AND E STAIN, WRIGHT’S STAIN
17. Amoeba inhabiting the CNS enter the body: THROUGH THE NASAL MUCOSA
18. Acanthamoeba and Naegleria: USUALLY FOUND IN CSF
19. Trophozoite whose karyosomal chromatin appears as a rosette of 4 to 6 granules: NAEGLERIA
FOWLERI
20. Mistaken for cysts of amoeba: BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS
21. Shape of the trophozoite of intestinal flagellates: PEAR-SHAPED
22. Pathognomonic for Giardia lamblia: VENTRAL SUCKING DISK IN THE TROPHOZOITE
23. Undulating membrane: TRICHOMONAS AND TRYPANOSOMA
24. Dientamoeba fragilis and Trichomonas vaginalis: NEITHER HAS A CYST FORM
25. FLAGELLATE that can be a pathogen of the small intestine: GIARDIA
26. Pear-shaped flagellate with jerky motility that is found in the urine specimen: TRICHOMONAS
VAGINALIS
27. 80% of the trophozoites of Dientamoeba fragilis: HAVE 2 NUCLEI
28. Only bilaterally symmetrical protozoan: GIARDIA
29. Intracellular form of blood and tissue flagellates: LEISHMANIAL
30. Vector of African sleeping sickness: TSETSE FLY (GLOSSINA)
31. Demonstration of trypanosomes of sleeping sickness: BLOOD, LYMPH NODE ASPIRATE AND CSF
32. Extracellular form of Trypanosoma, slender organism characterized by an undulating membrane and
a free flagellum : FREE FLAGELLUM ARISE POSTERIORLY FROM THE KINETOPLAST
33. Kala-azar: LEISHMANIA DONOVANI
34. Preferred specimen to find Leishman-Donovan bodies: BONE MARROW
35. Only ciliate pathogenic to man: BALANTIDIUM COLI
36. Responsible for motility of Balantidium coli: CILIA
37. REPRODUCTIVE nucleus of Balantidium coli: MICRONUCLEUS
38. Conjugation of trophozoites of Balantidium coli: NEVER OCCURS BETWEEN SAME SIZE ORGANISMS
39. Definitive host to Plasmodium: FEMALE ANOPHELES MOSQUITO
40. Amoeboid ring trophozoites: PLASMODIUM VIVAX
41. Preferentially invades reticulocytes: PLASMODIUM VIVAX
42. Fruit pie, rosette merozoites: PLASMODIUM MALARIAE
43. Band trophozoites: PLASMODIUM MALARIAE
44. Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes: DIFFERENTIATED FOR OTHERS IN TERMS OF SHAPE; crescent-
shaped gametocytes
45. Ziemann’s stipplings: PLASMODIUM MALARIAE
46. Maurer’s dots: PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM
47. Double chromatin dots, applique forms, multiple parasites in infected red blood cells: PLASMODIUM
FALCIPARUM
48. Large, pale red cells with FIMBRIATED EDGES: PLASMODIUM OVALE
49. SEXUAL reproduction cycle in Plasmodium and Coccidia: SPOROGONY
50. Infective stage of malarial parasite to the vector: GAMETOCYTES
51. Infective stage of malarial parasite to man: SPOROZOITES
52. Synchronized rupture of RBCs every 72 hours: PLASMODIUM MALARIAE
53. Sudden massive intravascular hemolysis in falciparum malaria: BLACKWATER FEVER
54. Hemoglobin incompatible with malaria parasite: HEMOGLOBIN SS
55. Laboratory-bred reduviid bug to feed on patients suspected of having Chagas disease:
XENODIAGNOSIS
56. Humans are infected with Babesia: BITE OF TICKS, BLOOD TRANSFUSION
57. Done if immature oocysts of Isospora belli are found in stool from infected humans: LEAVE AT ROOM
TEMPERATURE
58. Stage of Isospora infective to man: OOCYSTS
59. Isospora belli IMMATURE oocysts contain: SPOROBLAST
60. INFECTIVE oocysts of Isospora belli contain: SPOROZOITES
61. Retinochoroidtis and cerebral calcifications: TOXOPLASMA GONDII, ANTIBODY TITER
62. Both definitive and intermediate host of Toxoplasma gondii: CAT
63. Appearance of Toxoplasma gondii in tissue fluids of man: CRESCENT
64. Positive result in the Sabin-Feldman dye test: TOXOPLASMA LOSES ITS AFFINITY FOR METHYLENE
BLUE DYE
65. Test for detection of Cryptosporidium: SHEATHER’S SUGAR FLOTATION
66. Schistosome eggs recovered in rectal biopsy: S. MANSONI AND S. JAPONICUM
67. Scientific name of the HEADof the tapeworm: SCOLEX
68. Oral and ventral cupshaped sucker in the adult stage: TREMATODES
69. First intermediate host of the flukes: SNAIL
70. Schistosomule: CERCARIA MINUS TAIL
71. Beef tapeworm: TAENIA SAGINATA
72. Uterine branches >15, resembling those of a tree: TAENIA SAGINATA
73. Unarmed scolex: BEEF TAPEWORM
74. With 7 to 12 uterine branches: TAENIA SOLIUM
75. Hexacanth embryo enclosed in a radially striated shell: TAENIA SPP.
76. Tapeworm infection to be treated with great care so that man does not acquire the larval infection:
TAENIASIS SOLIUM
77. Bile-stained egg and contains a hexacanth embryo that LACKS POLAR KNOBS OR FILAMENTS:
HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA
78. Dwarf tapeworm: HYMENOLEPIS NANA
Rat tapeworm: H. DIMINUTA.
79. Eggs of Echinococcus granulosus: FOUND IN THE FECES OF DOGS
80. Found in the intermediate host of E. granulosus: HYDATID CYST
81. Hydatid disease: DUE TO LARVA OF ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS
82. First intermediate host of Diphyllobothrium latum: COPEPODS
83. Second intermediate host of Diphyllobothrium latum: FRESHWATER FISH
84. Infective stage of broad fish tapeworm to man: PLEROCERCOID LARVA
85. TAPEWORM egg with operculum and abopercular knob: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM yu
86. Megaloblastic anemia: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM
87. Male roundworm: DORSALLY CURVED POSTERIOR
88. Demonstration of pinworm infection: CELLOPHANE TAPE PREPARATION
89. Gravid female of pinworm deposits her embryonated eggs: ON THE PERIANAL SKIN
90. Eggs are flattened on one side and contain a motile larva: ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS
91. Bile-stained eggs with clear polar plugs: WHIPWORM
92. NO free-living stage: ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS
93. Trichuris trichiura infective stage to man: EMBRYONATED EGG
94. Ascaris egg lacking the mammillated coat: DECORTICATED EGG
95. Unholy three: HOOKWORMS, ASCARIS AND TRICHURIS
96. First larval stage of nematodes: RHABDITIFORM LARVA
97. Heart to lung migration: ASCARIS, HOOKWORM, STRONGYLOIDES
98. Eggs of hookworms: EMBRYO IN 2 TO 8 CELL STAGE OF CLEAVAGE, OVAL, THIN-SHELLED AND WITH
A CLEAR SPACE BETWEEN SHELL AND EMBRYO
99. Microcytic, hypochromic anemia: HOOKWORMS
100. Rhabditiform larva of the HOOKWORM: LONG BUCCAL CAVITY EQUAL TO THE WIDTH OF THE BODY
101. Mode of transmission is by skin penetration: HOOKWORMS, STRONGYLOIDES
102. Demonstrated as rhabditiform larva in the fecal specimen: THREADWORM
103. Muscle biopsy: TRICHINOSIS
104. Vivaparous nematode: PRODUCES LIVING LARVAE
105. Differential characteristics of microfilariae: PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF SHEATH
106. Habitat of adult filarial worms: LYMPHATICS AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES
107. Pathological findings in infestations of Wuchereria: ELEPHANTIASIS
108. Intermediate host of Guinea worm: COPEPOD
109. Dirofilaria immitis: DOG HEARTWORM
110. Dracunculus infections: ULCERS THAT RELEASE LARVAE ON CONTACT WITH WATER
111. Eye worm: LOA LOA
112. Cutaneous larva migrans or creeping eruption: CAUSED BY FILARIFORM LARVAE OF ANIMAL
HOOKWORMS
113. Causes chronic cough, pulmonary and artery obstruction but no invasion of the heart in man:
DIROFILARIA IMMITIS
114. Caused by ingestion of snails by man: RAT LUNGWORM/A. CANTONENSIS
115. Cercarial dermatitis or swimmer’s itch : CAUSED BY CERCARIA OF SCHISTOSOMES
116. BODY of a tapeworm: STROBILA
117. Gravid segments of tapeworms: FILLED WITH EGGS
118. Six-hooked embryo: HEXACANTH EMBRYO
119. TROPHOZOITES in iodine wet stool preparation: TROPHOZOITES ARE DESTROYED BY IODINE
120. CYTOPLASM of protozoan CYST in iodine wet stool preparation: YELLOW-BROWN
121. CHROMATOID BODIES of protozoan cysts in iodine wet stool preparation: DO NOT STAIN
122. CHROMATOID BODIES in TRICHROME stain: BRIGHT TO RED
123. Preservative in trichrome staining: POLYVINYL ALCOHOL
124. Ideal temperature at which to hold a fecal specimen for more than 1 hour: REFRIGERATOR
TEMPERATURE
125. Specific gravity of the zinc sulfate solution for the flotation method: 1.18
126. Blood specimen is preferred for preparing blood smears for protozoa: FINGER PUNCTURE
127. Venipuncture is not recommended for: MALARIA, BABESIA, HEMOFLAGELLATES (REQUIRES FINGER-
PRICK BLOOD)
128. Detection of stippling, blood film from venipunture: PREPARED 30 MINUTES TO 1 HOUR AFTER
BEING DRAWN
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