Parasites 3 - Statistics

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What organ is the host to the first stage of malaria? Liver
80%
What family of mammals is the definitive host of toxoplasma? Cat
73%
What type of cell is affected by the next stage of malarial infection? RBC/Red Blood Cell
73%
Whati is the most common species causing malaria? Plasmodium falciparum
67%
What is the name for the flagellated form of leishmani found in the sand fly? Promastigote
53%
What type of cells does the ovoid non-flagellated amastigote occupy in the human host? Macrophage
47%
What form of visceral leishmaniasis may be fatal if left untreated? Kala-azar
20%
What is the name for the DNA holding centre? Kinetoplast
13%
What is the name for the part of a apicomplexan parasite that controls motility and host cell invasion? Apical complex
7%
Using this complex a compartment for the parasite can be formed inside the host cell what is it called? Parasitophorous vacuole
7%
There are three key organelles in this area, these are micronemes, dense granules and what third? Rhoptries
7%
What is the natural mamalian host of L.braziliensis Sloth
7%
ROP18 is a kinase that protects these compartments, what internal immune molecules does it protect it from? IRGs/Immune Related GTPases
0%
What carbohydrate is the outside of the parasite covered in as a means of protection? Lipophosphoglycan/LPG
0%
What is described? The first stage in malaria growth, where the parasite is not a single cell but a mass of dividing nuclei (schizont) which splits to form merozoites (singular parasites) . Merogony
0%
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