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==<font color="purple">Cryptosporidia</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Cryptosporidia</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Giardia</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Giardia</font>==
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!width="400"|'''Question'''
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!width="400"|'''Answer'''
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!width="150"|'''Article'''
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|<big>'''What is the key points of the life cycle and prepatent period of ''Giardia''?'''
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*'''''Simple life cycle'''''
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*'''''Direct life cycle'''''
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*'''''Reproduce by binary fission'''''
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*'''''5-6 day prepatent period'''''
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||[[Giardia#Life Cycle|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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|-
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|<big>'''How do both people and animals become infected by ''Giardia''?'''
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*'''''Water bourne transmission'''''
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*'''''Direct faecal-oral transmission'''''
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||[[Giardia#Epidemiology|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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|-
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|<big>'''How would you diagnose a ''Giardia'' infection?'''
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*'''''The cysts are heavy and do not float well in saturated sodium chloride solution'''''
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*'''''Cysts excretion is intermittent so faeces need to be collected and sampled over 3 days'''''
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*'''''Cyst antigen can be detected in faeces by an immunoassay'''''
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||[[Giardia#Diagnosis|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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|}
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==<font color="purple">Piroplasmida</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Piroplasmida</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Tissue Cyst Forming Coccidia</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Tissue Cyst Forming Coccidia</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Tropical Protozoa</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Tropical Protozoa</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Other Important Protozoa</font>==
 
==<font color="purple">Other Important Protozoa</font>==
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