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Parasites 3 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 19 times
- The average score is 5 of 15
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What organ is the host to the first stage of malaria? | Liver | 80%
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| What family of mammals is the definitive host of toxoplasma? | Cat | 73%
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| What type of cell is affected by the next stage of malarial infection? | RBC/Red Blood Cell | 73%
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| Whati is the most common species causing malaria? | Plasmodium falciparum | 67%
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| What is the name for the flagellated form of leishmani found in the sand fly? | Promastigote | 53%
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| What type of cells does the ovoid non-flagellated amastigote occupy in the human host? | Macrophage | 47%
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| What form of visceral leishmaniasis may be fatal if left untreated? | Kala-azar | 20%
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| What is the name for the DNA holding centre? | Kinetoplast | 13%
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| What is the name for the part of a apicomplexan parasite that controls motility and host cell invasion? | Apical complex | 7%
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| Using this complex a compartment for the parasite can be formed inside the host cell what is it called? | Parasitophorous vacuole | 7%
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| There are three key organelles in this area, these are micronemes, dense granules and what third? | Rhoptries | 7%
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| What is the natural mamalian host of L.braziliensis | Sloth | 7%
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| ROP18 is a kinase that protects these compartments, what internal immune molecules does it protect it from? | IRGs/Immune Related GTPases | 0%
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| What carbohydrate is the outside of the parasite covered in as a means of protection? | Lipophosphoglycan/LPG | 0%
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| 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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