Self Quiz for Medically Important Protozoa

Study the material in this section and then write out the answers to these questions.
Do not just click on the answers and write them out. This will not test your understanding of this tutorial.

1. Matching

_____ Moves by flagella; transmitted by ingesting cysts via the fecal-oral route; causes an intestinal infection. (ans)

_____ Moves by cilia; transmitted by ingesting cysts via the fecal-oral route; causes an intestinal infection. (ans)

_____ Moves by flagella; transmitted by an infected tsetse fly; causes African sleeping sickness. (ans)

_____ Nonmotile in the body; reproduces sexually and asexually; transmitted by an infecteded Anopheles mosquito; causes malaria. (ans)

_____ Moves by flagella; transmitted sexually; causes vaginitis. (ans)

_____ Nonmotile in the body; reproduces sexually and asexually; transmitted by eating infected meat or inhaling or ingesting cysts from cat feces. (ans)

a. Entamoeba histolytica

b. Acanthamoeba

c. Giardia lamblia

d. Trichomonas vaginalis

e. Trypanosoma brucei-gambiens

f. Balantidium coli

g. Plasmodium species

h. Toxoplasma gondii

i. Cryptosporidium

2. Multiple Choice (ans)

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