Microbiology and Immunology 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Giardia Lamblia, Dientamoeba Fragilis, Stool Test
3 Jan 2018
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Parasitology i: not responsible for therapeutics, common names as well as scientific names will be provided, hidden slides in slide set are supplemental for your interest only. Parasites (4 branches): ectoparasites, arthropods, insects and alike that bite us, disease of vectors, enteric protozoa, infect us in gut, blood and tissue protozoa, helminths, worms. Anything that exists in the same ecological niche as us and cause damage is a parasite by symbiotic terms. Enteric protozoa: protozoa (even nonpathogenic protozoa) infection indicates exposure to contaminated food or water, also non pathogenic protozoa do not cause disease or inflammation, are not supposed to be there so may indicate risk of pathogenic protozoa. 2 kinds: cysts are the infective form, trophozoites are the active form the one causing the mayhem in gut, can be passed to the outside. Etiology of traveler"s diarrheoa: bacterial, parasitic, viral.
