Q: What are the main human diseases caused by platyhelminthes?
A: Platyhelminthes consists of 3 major groups, namely free-living turbellarians, cestodes, and the…
Q: What are the signs andsymptoms of head liceinfestation?
A: Insects that feed on human blood are called blood-sucking bugs. They are generally parasitic and…
Q: How many intermediate hosts are in the life cycle of the liver fluke?
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Q: What internal and external structures are useful to Neisseria Gonorrhoeae to infect it's hosts?…
A: Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that causes mucosal surface infections of male…
Q: Why are entomopathogenic nematodes so attractivefor the biocontrol of insect pest species?
A: Crop plants have to be given protection against pests and pathogens by killing or removing them. it…
Q: What animal group has been most affected by chytrids?
A: Chytrids belong to the kingdom Fungi and are saprotrophs. The process of reproduction is carried out…
Q: What prevents other bacteria from colonizing the dead insectand competing with the nematode and…
A: E.coli is a gram-negative bacteria that is a facultative anaerobe (microbes that can even survive in…
Q: What other diseases in this chapter are consideredzoonotic in origin?
A: The diseases in humans that are caused by the non-human pathogen are called zoonosis. These…
Q: What are the diseases of Sphaerotilus natans that can affect to either humans or animals?
A: An aquatic periphyton organism that is associated with polluted water is known as Sphaerotilus…
Q: Explain what it means to be an obligate intracellular parasite.Name three groups of obligate…
A: Step 1 Intracellular pathogens are organisms that can grow and reproduce inside host cells. It…
Q: How do people become infected with pinworms and How do they acquire an Ascaris infection?
A: Pinworms are worms that inhabit the human rectum and colon, these are small and are shaped like a…
Q: What are the differences between the life cycle of Symbion Pandora and Plasmodium (commonly known as…
A: Symbian Pandora and Plasmodium species,both can cause malaria, hence known as malarial parasites.
Q: What is the best way to prevent transmissible spongiform encephalopathies?
A: Answer: Introduction: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also called as a prion…
Q: What are the main human diseases caused by roundworms?
A: The roundworms are the parasites that usually live in the intestine. It is contagious through…
Q: Under which forms is theTrypanosoma cruzi found inits hosts?
A: T. Cruzi is a parasitic species of euglenoids. Trypanosoma bore tissue and feed on blood or lymph in…
Q: Name the diseases caused by picornavirus.
A: The picornavirus is a small, icosahedral, nonenveloped viral particle. The family Picornaviridae…
Q: List the vectors associated with each of the common filarial worms.
A: Introduction: Filariasis is caused by the filarial worm, Wuchereria bancrofti. It causes a disease…
Q: What are the insect vector, the natural host reservoir, and thetreatment for plague?
A: Plague is a type of infectious disease which is caused by Yersinia pestis bacterium. Generally the…
Q: Describe a parasitic infection in cestodes in which human serves as a definitive host, as an…
A: Cestodes are also called tapeworms. All cestodes have neck and scolex, may have mature, gravid, or…
Q: Describe two piedras that infect humans.
A: The fungal infection that affects the hair shaft is called Piedra. The two types of this condition…
Q: Why doesn’t the evolutionary history of Plasmodium follow the classical host–parasite co-speciation…
A: Co-speciation is a type of coevolution where the speciation of one species influences the speciation…
Q: What are the mostimportant worm infections?
A: Worms are basically characterized by the presence of a cylindrical body and the absence of limbs and…
Q: How is ornithosis transmitted?
A: The causative agent is Chlamydia psittaci. It is a Gram negative bacterium. It is a nonmotile,…
Q: Give the scientific name of causative germ of elephantiasis?
A: The filarial parasites produce tiny micro-filarial larvae that circulate in the blood and…
Q: What aspects of the transmission of scrapie or other spongiform encephalopathies act like genetic…
A: Scrapie is the archetype TSE (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy). It is a naturally arising…
Q: Which parasitic diseases could conceivably be spread bycontaminated blood and needles?
A: Micro-organisms are such small living organisms that are less than 0.1 mm, and can be seen only…
Q: Spalangia endius is a parasitoid, explain their life cycle and how they parasitize their host and…
A: Spalangia endius is also known as Fly parasitioid.It belongs to the order Hymenoptera and family…
Q: How is the structure of Trichomonas vaginalis well suited to its parasitic lifestyle inside the host…
A: Parasitism is a kind of advantageous interaction - 'living respectively'. In natural terms:…
Q: What are the more important worm infestations? What are their manifestations?
A: Intestinal infection is caused by parasites of intestine like worms. These worms feed off host's…
Q: To achieve a cure for tapeworm, why must the antihelminthic drugeither kill the scolex or slacken…
A: Different antimicrobial drugs are effective against a wide variety of microbes like there are…
Q: What are the main humanviral diseases transmitted bymosquitoes?
A: The disease that is spread by the bite of the infected mosquito bite is called mosquito-born…
Q: What are someprophylactic measures fortapeworm infections?
A: The various species of tapeworm cause a parasitic infection in humans known as taeniasis. These…
Q: Describe the four basic helminth transmission cycles.
A: Helminths are also known as parasitic worms that survive by feeding on a living host to gain…
Q: Which diseases are zoonoses? Name them and the major vector involved.
A: Vectors are living creatures capable of transmitting infectious illnesses from people to humans or…
Q: What is Arthrobacter luteus ?
A: Prokaryotes are organisms with no well-defined nucleus.
Q: Wolbachia infect what types of organisms? Insects Bacteria Viruses Humans
A: Answer. Wolbachia genus belongs to the prokaryota kingdom. It is considered the most common…
Q: What are the diseases associated to Clostridium species?
A: Clostridia are strictly anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacilli. They are found extensively…
Q: How does brood parasitism harm the hosts and benefit the parasite?
A: Brood parasitism refers to a phenomena where an organism of one species lays it eggs in nest of…
Q: What is ascaris? What isthe disease caused by thisworm?
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Q: What is the clinicalmanifestation of the diseaseknown as daltonism?
A: Daltonism is a form of color blindness. It is a recessive sex-linked condition as the gene for the…
Q: Why are patients in healthcare facilities especially susceptible topathogens?
A: Health facilities are the places where health care services are provided to individuals. Healthcare…
Q: Angiostrongyliasis cantonesis, the organism that cause Rat Lungworm Disease, is a
A: Answer: A parasitic organism is an organism which lives on or in other host organisms or get their…
Q: The species above belongs to which subtaxon(a) of Platyhelminthes?
A: The species depicted in the image is Tapeworm- Taenia solium These are mostly parasitic living of…
Q: What are the different ways in which species of Myxococcus andBdellovibrio kill their prey?
A: Introduction: Myxococcus is a genus with Gram-negative organisms that form spores and are…
Q: is chlamydiosis an STD in birds?
A: Yes, chlamydiosis is also found in birds. Avian chlamydiosis is a bacterial disease caused by…
Q: What kinds of infections do prions cause and what part of the human body is usually affected?
A: Prions are the disease-causing agents, that are made up of the protein named prion. They are without…
Q: List at least two human diseases caused by apicomplexans
A: The phylum consists of intracellular parasitic protists. The presence of an apical complex is a…
Q: What are the humantissues affected by malaria?What are the main clinicalmanifestations of the…
A: Malaria has a number of effects on the body. Disease is caused by plasmodium parasites transmitted…
What are some ways in which Wolbachia species can
affect insects?
The genus Wolbachia is a Gram-negative bacterium. It is an obligate parasite of arthropod species such as insects and some nematodes. Wolbachia species cause numerous effects on their hosts.
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- What aspects of the transmission of scrapie or other spongiform encephalopathies act like genetic diseases? What aspects act like transmittable diseases?What is a drug- resistant malaria case? How is it being managed?What is the name of the infective stage of the malaria parasite inhumans and mosquitoes?
- Which of the following summarizes the chronological sequence (earliest to latest) of discovery involving human malaria parasites? This is was in a lecture slide, but is also in the textbook. a) liver stages, blood stages, mosquito stages, experimental transmission by mosquito b) blood stages, mosquito stages, liver stages, experimental transmission by mosquito c) mosquito stages, blood stages, liver stages, experimental transmission by mosquito d) blood stages, mosquito stages, experimental transmission by mosquito, liver stages e) mosquito stages, liver stages, blood stages, experimental transmission by mosquitoWhich of the following are true regarding parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa? a) they are intracellular parasites b) when they are inside cells, they exist within a parasitophorous vacuole c) the phylum includes the malaria parasites d) movement of the parasites into cells involves the action of an actomyosin motor e) they only reproduce asexuallyA 5 year-old child was playing in their backyard. Suddenly, the child felt itchiness in his skin and began to scratch his body. Based on laboratory results, it was confirmed that the child was infected with hookworm. Answer the following questions: What possible mode of transmission the parasite has been acquired? Explain why. List all possible effects of parasite on the host. Explain each.