BIOL 4105 Chapter : Chapter 7
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Usual mode of transmission: fecal contamination of food or water. Giardiasis aka beaver fever , day care diarrhea , backpacker"s disease . Family characteristics: axostyle*: stout microtubular rod extending through cell, anterior tuft of flagella, undulating membrane, trophozoites only, binary fission, direct life cycle, all are parasitic. The host niche of the parasite infecting your patient is in a vessel. Explain why: a vessel is a structure that carries fluid. You are a physician with a patient that has a visible skin lesion caused by an amoeba that can only infect individuals like this who are immunocompromised. This patient is now at risk of having what disease: acanthamoeba spp, granulomatous amebic encephalitis. Class: coccidia: direct life cycle, eimeria spp not infect human. Indirect life cycle in intermediate or vertebrate host: toxoplasma, sarcosystis spp, schozogony=merogony, merogony merozoites, sporogony sprozoites, gametogony gametes.
