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Ospe Parasitology

The document discusses various parasites that can infect humans, including their life cycles, vectors of transmission, and signs and symptoms of associated diseases. Amoebas, flagellates, coccidia, plasmodium, nematodes, filarial worms, cestodes, trematodes, and arthropods that can transmit parasites are described. For each parasite, diagrams illustrate their morphological forms and life cycle stages within human and vector hosts.

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Ospe Parasitology

The document discusses various parasites that can infect humans, including their life cycles, vectors of transmission, and signs and symptoms of associated diseases. Amoebas, flagellates, coccidia, plasmodium, nematodes, filarial worms, cestodes, trematodes, and arthropods that can transmit parasites are described. For each parasite, diagrams illustrate their morphological forms and life cycle stages within human and vector hosts.

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Amoeba

Pre-cystic form

Trophozoite

cyst

Amoebic liver abscess


Flagellates

American trypanosomas
Reduviid bug

Romana’s sign
Swelling due to trypanosoma cruzi

African sleeping sickness


Tryponosoma cruzi (trypanosoma brucei)

(trypanosoma brucei)
Tsetse fly
Giardia & Giardiasis (Intestinal flagellate)

Trophozoites Cyst

Trichomonas & Trichomoniasis (genital flagellates)

Trophozoites & no cyst


Coccidia

Trophozoites:
• Tachyzoite
• Bradyzoite

Tissue cysts

Fecal cysts
Coccidiosis
Isospora belli
(Isosporiosis)
Cryptosporidium parvum
(cryptosporidiosis)

Sarcocyctis
(sarcocystosis)
Plasmodium & Malaria

E.E= Exo-erythrocytic cycle


E= Erythrocytic cycle

Cerebral malaria
Nematode (intestinal)

1. Trichuris trichiura
2. Enterobius vermicularis

3. Ascaris lumbricoides

A, B, C: Fertilized egg
C: Decorticated egg
D: Unfertilized egg
4. Hookworms: Ancylostoma duodenale & Necator americanus

Adult female hookworms


5. Strongyloides stercoralis

6. Trichinella spiralis

Cutaneous larva migran


Filarial worms (filariasis)
Hydrocele, elephantiasis of leg &
leopard skin (depigmentation)

elephantiasis

Microfilaria in peripheral
Microfilaria blood film

River blindness (Onchocerciasis)

simulium

Vector: black fly


Cestodes

Scolex

T. saginata

T. solium

Gravid segments

T. saginata

T. solium
Egg
Hymenolepis nana (hymenolepiasis)

Egg
Trematodes

Blood flukes (Schistosomes/ Blihazia) S.hematobium adult male&


female

Fork-tail cercaria

Egg of S.hematobium in urine


Liver flukes (Clonorchis sinensis)

Intestinal flukes (Fasciolopsis buski)


Lung flukes (Paragonimus westermani)
Medical entomology
Mosquito

Arthropod

Aedes

Anopheles

Culex

Sand fly

Rat flea

tsetse fly
Lice : head lice
Pubic ice/crab lice

Mite

Tick

Bed bugs

Bed bugs

House dust mite

Sarcoptes scabei

Scorpion

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