Amebae in humans are under subphylum _________

Species are mainly differentiated based on _____ and ______

Entamoeba histolytica

Entamoeba dispar

Entamoeba moshkovskii

Entamoeba hartmanii

Entamoeba gingivalis

Entamoeba coli

Endolimax nana

Iodamoeba butschlii

Intestinal ameba of pigs and monkeys occasionally found

in humans and is a probable cause of diarrhea

LIFE STAGES

Physiologically active stage

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Physiologically dormant stage

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Invasive

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Infective

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Pathologic or pathogenic state and mature form which can actually divide

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Inactive trophozoite inside shell

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Vegetative state destroyed by unfavorable environment

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Survives in any environment (resistant to gastric acidity and desiccation)

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Highly motile (ability to colonize and/or invade the large

bowel)

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- Transferred from 1 host to another

- Cysts dissolve in alkaline small intestine & hatches in large intestine

LIFE STAGES

Divide by binary fission

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Nuclear division (divide again after excystation in new host)

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Present in diarrheal stool

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Present in formed stool

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Possess pseudopodia

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Surrounding cyst wall for protection

TRANSMISSION