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WorksheetsMedical Parasitology
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which one of the following statements does NOT apply to parasites?
they can be free-living organisms
they must live in or on another species
helminths are multicellular organisms
protozoans are unicellular organisms
An organism that any parasite can live on and reproduce.
The organism that provides conditions that allows sexual reproduction of a parasite to occur.
An organism that parasites find easily and allow reproduction of the parasite.
An intermediate host is _____.
where parasite asexual cycle occurs
always a nonhuman host
where parasite sexual cycle occurs
the human host between two other animal hosts
Malaria is a disease caused by a member of the sporozoa
True
False
Which of the following does NOT apply to the trematodes?
They are hermaphroditic
They often parasitize two hosts
They are flukes
They have a scolex and proglottids
This protozoan has a two stage life cycle in which one is called a cyst, and causes dysentery.
Entamoeba histolytica
Foraminiferan Polystomella
Typanosoma brucei
Apicomplexa Plasmodium
Which of these protozoan diseases results in intestinal stress and diarrhea?
African Sleeping Sickness
Trichomoniasis
Giardiasis
Malaria
Snails are often the _________ host in the fluke's life cycle.
primary
intermediate
secondary
first
When this internal parasite releases eggs, they are released as proglottids or segments which each contain thousands of egg packets.
Roundworm
Whipworm
Hookworm
Tapeworm
method of pork tapeworm transmission
undercooked meat
ingesting contaminated feces
drinking contaminated water
stepping on contaminated feces
