The document provides 20 questions to identify and describe various parasites, stages of parasites, and aspects of parasite infections. For each question, students are asked to identify something (parasite, stage, structure) and then provide 1-2 additional details about it, such as morphological features, life cycle stage, medical importance, etc. The answers provided identify and describe the requested parasites, stages, structures, and other aspects.

1. By
Noha Madbouly Taha
Assistant Lecturer at Parasitology department – Faculty of Medicine – Cairo
University

2. Blueprint
3 Adult Helminth
2 Eggs Helminth
2 Anterior end or segment or section
1 larval stage Helminth
2 Adult Arthropod
1 Egg
2 Larva or pupa or Posterior spiracle
2 Protozoa
3 Boxes or Jars
2 Photos

3. Exam trial 1

4. 1- Identify.
2- Mention how man got infected
1

5. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the causative parasite
2

6. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
3

7. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the habitat
4

8. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 medical importance
5

9. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the infective stage
6

10. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic
morphlogical features
7

11. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
8

12. 1- Identify.
2- What is the defenitive host
9

13. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 medical importance
10

14. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic
morphlogical features
11

15. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the medical importance
12

16. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
13

17. 1- Identify.
2- Mention how man got infected
14

18. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical
features
15

19. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
16

20. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
17

21. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
18

22. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the vector
19

23. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the diagnostic stage
20

24. Answers
1-Adult Echinococcus granulosus
Ingestion of eggs with contaminated food or drink or from
fur of infected dogs while playing with them
2-Wet cutaneous leishmaniasis
Leishmania major
3-Adult male culex mosquito
Non spotted wing – Plumose antenna
4-Egg of Ascaris lumbricoides
Free in the small intestine
5-Larva of Aedes
Body formed of head thorax and segmented abdomen –
short broad siphon
6-Polymorphic trypanosomes in blood
Short stumpy metacyclic trypanosomes
7-Eggs of Enterobius vermicularis
Plano-convex- Translucent in colour

25. Answers
8-Multiple Hydatid cysts in lung
Multiple small rounded cysts- whitish in colour- consolidated
lung
9-Buccal capsule of Ancylostoma duodenale
Man
10-Adult Hard tick
Terminal capitulum – Festooned posterior margin
11-Adult male Trichuris trichiura
Whiplike- coiled posterior end
12-Adult wohlfahrtia
Semi-specific myiasis
13-Egg of Louse
Oval- crown shaped operculum
14- Encysted larva of Trichinella spiralis in muscles
Ingestion of encysted larva in improperly cooked pork

26. Answers
15-Furcocercus cercaria of Schistosoma
Oval body- Forked tail
16-Posterior spiracles of Sarcophaginae
Straigh respiratory slits – Opened peritreme
17-Entamoeba histolytica cyst
Rounded – 2-4 nuclei
18-Bulinus truncatus snail
Left sided opening – Blunt apex
19-Onchocerca nodule
Adult simulium
20-Adult Fasciola hepatica
Eggs in stool

27. Exam trial 2

28. 1- Identify.
2- What is the infective
stage
1

29. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the vector
2

30. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
3

31. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical
features
4

32. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic
morphlogical features
5

33. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the causative parasite
6

34. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
7

35. 1- Identify.
2- What is the infective stage
8

36. 1- Identify.
2- What is the diagnostic stage
9

37. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the definitive host
10

38. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 medical importance
11

39. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the habitat
12

40. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
13

41. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the medical importance
14

42. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic morphlogical features
15

43. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 characteristic
morphlogical features
16

44. 1- Identify.
2- Mention 2 medical importance
17

45. 1- Identify.
2- Mention the pathogenic stage
18

46. 1- Identify.
2- Mention how man got infected
19

47. 1- Identify.
2- Mention how man got infected
20

48. Answers
1-Adult male and female Schistosoma in copula
Furcocercus cercaria
2-Leishmania amastigotes in macrophages
Adult female Sandfly (Phlebotomus old world and
Lutzomyia new world)
3-Adult Sarcophaga
Larger than Musca with 3 pairs of legs- Chess board
abdomen
4-Egg of Fasciola
Oval- yellowish brown in colour
5-Adult male Ancylostoma duodenale
Creamy white – Copulatory bursa at posterior end
6-Romana’s sign (Chaga’s disease)
Trypanosoma cruzi

49. Answers
7-Egg of Anopheles
Slipper shaped- Air cells
8-Gravid segment of Taenia saginata
Cysticercus bovis in cattle meat
9-Anterior end of Adult female Enterobius vermicularis
Eggs and Adults in stool or peri-anal swab
10-Hydatid sand
Dogs and Canines
11-Adult male Anopheles mosquito
Adult Female transmits Human malaria and Viral
Encephalitis
12-Adult Hymenolepis nana
Small intestine
13-Adult Phthirus pubis
Thorax and abdomen compressed together – 3 pairs of
well developed legs ending in tibial process and claw

50. Answers
14-Lymnaea cailliaudi snail
Intermediate host of Fasciola gigantica
15-Larva of Culex
Body formed of head thorax and segmented abdomen-
Long narrow siphon
16-Egg of Schistosoma haematobium
Translucent in colour – Terminal spine
17-Posterior spiracles of Musca domestica
Accidental myiasis – Adult mechanical indirect transmission
of bacteria viruses cysts of protozoa and eggs of helminths
18-Cyst of Giardia lamblia
Trophozoite

51. Answers
19-Multiple Adult Ascaris lumbricoides worms
Ingestion of embryonated eggs containing 2nd stage
rhabditiform larva with contaminated hands fruits and
vegetables
20- Dracunculus medinensis worm
Drinking contaminated water containing infective cyclops
containing infective larva

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