Hemoflagellates 8a

Match the following

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• East African Sleeping Sickness

• Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

• West African Sleeping Sickness

• Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

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Which of these is not a clinical condition of Leishmania sp.?

• cutaneous

• mucocutaneous

• visceral

• bacterial

Which stage is the infective stage?

• Amastigotigotes transform into promastigote stage in gut

• Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into skin

• Promastigotes transform into amastigotes

• Sandfly takes a blood meal (ingests macrophages infected with amastigotes)

Which stage is the diagnostic stage?

• Amastigotigotes transform into promastigote stage in gut

• Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into skin

• Promastigotes transform into amastigotes

• Sandfly takes a blood meal (ingests macrophages infected with amastigotes)

Which of these is not a description of Leishmania amastigote?

• oval

• large nucleus with small kinetoplast; stains red/purple

• cytoplasm stains light blue

• left at ambient temperature, amastigotes may transform into promastigotes

• vector borne

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Leishmania spp. amastigotes

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(b) T. brucei trypomastigotes

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(c) Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes

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