MIC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Apicomplexan Life Cycle, Amoebiasis, Entamoeba

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Microbiology and Immunology
• Course: MIC 301
• Professor: Williams Roger

Document Summary

Get infected by ingesting the cyst and goes to gut and for some you are fine and some you get bad illness: transforms into trophozoite and then then some go back to cyst to infect other people. 3: 2 strains, one pathogenic and one nonpathogenic (dispar) Transmitted in fecal contaminated food and anal/oral sex. 4: infective stage = cyst, pathology stage = trophozoite. Stays in larger intestine and liver and can invade it (slide 5) Symptoms: bloody diarrhea for a short time and then watery, followed by constipation. 8: top is fatal case and second shows lesion where they were multiplying by the lesion. If it gets into liver its bad: takes a while to develop so it"s bad and can cause abscesses and people forget they had. Gi problems earlier: have to remove abscess with needle.