MIC 401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neurocysticercosis, Taenia Solium, Headache
3 Apr 2016
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Symbiosis a relaionship of disinct organisms (species) in close associaion with one another: mutualism beneits both (+/+) o o. Host the exploited partner in a parasiic relaionship: deiniive host in which the obligate sexual stage of a parasite life cycle occurs o o o. Incidental not an obligate part of the parasite life cycle (zoonoses) Reservoir maintain the natural cycle in the wild. Transmission mode by which an infecious form is transmited between or within host species: direct via exchange of bodily luids o o. Ingesive oral infecion by a dormant cyst or egg in food or environment. Protozoa an environmentally stable non-replicaing form, typically involved in fecal/oral transmission, or a slowly replicaing issue form. Helminthes dormant juvenile (larval) form typically embedded in host issue; under-cooked meat o. Egg product of sexual reproducion by adult worms, contains a single embryonated prelarval form, fecal/oral o o. Diagnosis ova & parasite a good stool sample.
