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WorksheetsProtist Diseases
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
This protist disease can place a person in a coma. (giving the disease its unique name). Caused by the protist, Trypanosoma brucei.
Malaria
African Sleeping Sickness
Giardiasis
Toxoplasmosis
This protist-caused disease is contracted through unclean water, and uncooked food. It causes cramping and diarrhea. In more serious cases, patients have bloody stools, fever, and, rarely, liver abscess may occur in severe cases.
Malaria
African Sleeping Sickness
Amoebic Dysentery
Trichomoniasis
This organism is the cause of disease. (Common diarrheal disease)
Malaria
African Sleeping Sickness
Trichomoniasis
Giardiasis
This insect is the animal vector for a very deadly disease. This disease kills about 3 million in the world people each year.
Malaria
Trichomoniasis
African Sleeping Sickness
Toxoplasmosis
The disease caused by the protist that belongs to the genus Plasmodium.
African Sleeping Sickness
Toxoplasmosis
Trichomoniasis
Malaria
Which organ in the body is the location where the Malaria protist goes to reproduce?
Heart
Liver
Lung
Skin
True or False? Malaria can be prevented and even cured if caught early enough.
True
False
This protist-caused disease is a sexually transmitted disease. Men infected with this protist often don't show symptoms.
Malaria
African Sleeping Sickness
Trichomoniasis
Toxoplasmosis
This disease is caused by a very common protist present in cat feces. Pregnant women should use caution when changing the cat litter box to avoid picking up the protist, Toxoplasma gondii.
Malaria
African Sleeping Sickness
Trichomoniasis
Toxoplasmosis
The protist, Entamoeba histolytica, causes this disease
Amoebic Dysentery
African Sleeping Sickness
Toxoplasmosis
Giardiasis
