Hemoflagellates

roundish to oval

5 by 3 um in size

• Promastigotes

• Amastigotes

• Epimastigotes

• Trypomastigotes

measures 9 to 15 µm in length.

• large single nucleus is located in or near the center of the long slender body.

• kinetoplast is located in the anterior end of the organism.

• single free flagellum extends anteriorly from the axoneme.

• Promastigotes

• Amastigotes

• Epimastigotes

• Trypomastigotes

measures 12 to 35 µm long by 2 to 4 µm wide

assume the shape of the letters C, S or U

posteriorly located kinetoplast

single large nucleus is located anterior to the kinetoplast.

• Promastigotes

• Amastigotes

• Epimastigotes

• Trypomastigotes

approximately 9 to 15 µm in length.

body is slightly wider than that of the promastigote.

• large single nucleus is located in the posterior end of the organism.

• kinetoplast is located anterior to the nucleus.

• Promastigotes

• Amastigotes

• Epimastigotes

• Trypomastigotes

choice for diagnosing the hemoflagellate morphologic forms.

• Blood, lymph node and ulcer aspirations, tissue biopsies, bone marrow, and CFS

• Serologic and molecular test

• Both A or B

• only A

mammalian type of parasite ( Human is the reservoir Host)

• Leishmania

• Trypanosoma

• Plasmodium

• Babesia

hemoflagellates have a large mitochondrian known as a

• kinetoplast

• latent

• equids

• nucleus

definitive host of the hemoflagellate trypanosoma cruzi

• dog, human

• cat, monkey

• bird, goat

the intermediate host of the hemoflagellate trypanosoma cruzi

• kissing bug

• sandfly

• mosquitoes

• arthropods

with the hemoflagellate _______ there are far more asymptomatic infections than clinical cases in both humans and dogs

• leishmania

• Trypanosoma