BIOMI 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arcellinida, Tubulinea, Amoebozoa

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Trophozoites and cysts occur in the tissues: balamuthia mandrillis, cause chronic granulomatous amebic encephalities in humans, often fatal and diagnosed at necropsy, patients are otherwise healthy, most cases = children 2-15 years old. Flabellinea: flattened, locomotive amoeba (naked: lack tubular pseudopodia, locomotion: actin-myosin cytoskeleton, lack centrosomes, lack flagellate stages, groups, vannellida, dactyopodida. Thecamoebida: cochliopodium, neoparamoeba perniciosa: found in blue crabs and lobsters, parasite, cause crab deaths during molting season (late spring - early autumn) Live in connective tissue and hemal spaces: replaces the blood of the craps, giving them a grey color, known as "grey crab disease" Invades circulating blood only when the infection is terminal. Lack flagellum, centrioles, mitochondria, peroxisomes, and hydrogenosomes: mitosis ends with endonuclear amorphous intranuclear microtubule organizing center and spindle, reduced golgi dictyosome. Transmission: directly as trophozoites, or via cysts (fecal-oral, host diversity (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, etc. , entamoeba invadens: gastrointestinal pathogen in large reptiles.

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